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

[Ton van Overbeek]

C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> 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 Rainbow docs are sadly out of date.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
>   
In case you did not notice it (yet), see trac #8016 which covers this.

Ton van Overbeek