Arch Linux

floke

Member

Registered: 2007-09-04

Posts: 266

A very bad thing happened...

Well I don't know how or why - I was using Arch this morning, went to work, came back and my touchpad (synaptics) was all screwy; lagging, no tapping, and picking things at random hovers. All worked fine on a separate user account, using same xorg etc., and renaming/deleting gnome config files made no difference. So, rather than spend ages trying to diagnose and fix the problem I decided to delete my user account and make a new one. Problem was, my new account had UID 1002 while the old one was 1000 - meaning that I couldn't access folders/partitions that I use to share between distros (well, with just Debian really). Anyway, long story short: the whole thing took me ages to work out how to fix (dumbass that I am). So there you go. I'm sure there's a moral to this story, but I don't know what it is.

tigrmesh

IRC Op

From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 794

Re: A very bad thing happened...

Bummer, dude.  I hate when the "easy fix" gives me a bigger headache.