Problems switching back from joyride-2290 to Update.1-708 (rainbow). Help wanted.

[Ton van Overbeek]

Michael Stone wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:16:01PM -0400, Ton van Overbeek wrote:
>> For my testing for trac #7788 I want to switch from Update.1 to 
>> joyride-2298 and vice versa
>> (using alternate boot).
>> After switching back from joyride-2298 to Update.1 most activities do 
>> not start because
>> their home directory does not exist.
>> I need some pointers where to look in rainbow how to get this two way 
>> switching working.
>> Anything I can run in Update.1 or rpm to update to get this working ???
>> One thing I noticed is that /etc/group does not have all the groupids 
>> in Update.1
>> but I have no idea how they got there in the first place.
>> Pointers to rainbow docs and rainbow changes between Update.1 and 
>> recent joyrides appreciated.
>
> Rainbow docs are sadly out of date. *hangs head in shame*.
>
> What's available is located at
>
>   http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Taste_the_Rainbow
>
> and in various text files in the rainbow directory of the
>   http://dev.laptop.org/git/security
>
> repository.
>
> The commit which broke things is almost certainly
>   
> http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=security;a=commit;h=8fc1e8c3a7a67364f43741461f66b302d1697410 
>
>
> Let me know if you have further questions and I'll do what I can to be
> responsive. Other people you should consider poking include
> patchvonbraun, coderanger, homunq, and tomeu.
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael

Just filed trac #8016 about this.
Turns out the problem exists both ways 8.1->8.2 and 8.2->8.1.

Ton