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

[C. Scott Ananian]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:46 PM, Michael Stone <michael at laptop.org> 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 Rainbow docs are sadly out of date.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.

Hmm, this sounds like it should be (a) a release note, and (b) we
should post a script to 'make things right'.  (Similar to the
datastore issue.)  I'll stub out appropriate text in the wiki for
this.
 --scott

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