Sabayon misbehaviour

[bobzr]

Last night I decided to give Sabayon 4.1 a try and installed it on a partition of my hard drive that also hosts Ubuntu and Fedora. The install went on smoothly and the new system seemed very nice. Fine, I switched off the computer and give it a rest.
When I went back to Ubuntu I opened Firefox and I noticed that something was wrong. My bookmarks were still there but my profile seemed to miss something. The home page was now "www.sabayonlinux.org" and all my other home page tabs were lost! I opened Seamonkey and I got the same problem, home page as "www.sabayonlinux.org" and worse, I couldn't open my Mail, Seamonkey keeping on asking me to create a new account.
I went to see about Fedora on another partition and Firefox was also showing "www.sabayonlinux.org" as its home page. I do not share profiles on Firefox, I only have a big Home partition where I do store my homes of the different distros, using different user names.
What went wrong? Is Sabayon trying to interfere with other installs forcing all browsers around to have "www.sabayonlinux.org" as home page? Or is it a bug of the new file sytem ext4 that I'm using on Ubuntu, Fedora and Sabayon?
Whatever happened, I could get back my mail thanks to a backup. The culprit was the file "pref.js" that was completely messed up by ...who? Sabayon? ext4?
When I tried to get back to Sabayon, grub complained about an Error 13 and I could never get Sabayon started again. I don't think I will ever try this distro again.
It would be interesting to know if anyone else had these same problems.

[joeoden]

This link may help you
viewtopic.php?f=57&t=15915&p=91183&hilit=share+home+partition#p91183

Do google search for share home partition, you will find more info

If the above doesn't then restore your partition (you did create a back image before you installed a different OS) create a new partition just for SL and do not share the home partition (better be safe than sorry)

Have fun
Joe

[bobzr]

Thanks so much for the link "sabayon distrubs other linux installations!". That confirmed that I've not gone mad and the culprit was Sabayon. As the first poster said, I DO NOT WANT any system to change my files on a different distro.
This Sabayon behaviour is unacceptable and should be qualified as MALWARE. Most of us have run away from Micro$oft, we don't need a distro who behave like them, forcing people to have their home page on every browser, dictating and messing up prefs.js files, putting labels on partitions without asking....
Ma che , siete diventati pazzi??? Sorry for the guys behind Sabayon, the distro seemed very nice and I'm an Italian myself living abroad. But I will never ever re-install Sabayon on my hard drive as long as this issue will not been solved.
I will also post on other Linux forums to warn people, and invite them to make a backup of their important files if they really insist on installing Sabayon.
Thanks for your advice on sharing home partition. But I really don't need any help in doing this, I'm very used to install hundreds of distros on my hard drive. This is really the first time a Linux distro has such a bad M$-like behaviour!

[Fitzcarraldo]

bobzr, if it bothers you so much, why don't you file a bug report in the SL Bugzilla? That way you would be helping to improve this free (as in beer and as in speech) Linux distribution. Linux needs and relies on users taking an active role. With Linux, the user has to be proactive; that's what free open-source software is all about.

[bobzr]

Thank you for your suggestion, I will do it right now. But I wasn't sure that was a "bug" or wasn't it intentional? Do you really think putting the Sabayon home page in all browsers of all distros in a hard drive is a "bug"?? mmmmm, not sure

[Fitzcarraldo]

Best thing to do is flag it to the developer (lxnay) and he will be in the best position to decide what to do taking into account user feedback.

[joost]

Ofcourse it can be classified as bug, who do you think we are?


http://gitweb.sabayonlinux.org/?p=insta ... 13180ad760
Its in the works allready.

[lxnay]

all the issues have been fixed. Fixes will be in Sabayon 4.2

[albfneto]

In fact, this also occurs sometimes in other distros also.....
because o this, I, and some others that enjoy to work with multiple boot ( i have Sabayon 4.0 r1, Sabayon 4.2,Gentoo, Mandriva Free and windows 7), ever make separate and independent /home partitions, this is more secure.
But you had informed that you installed Sabayon, Fedora etc... in the same partition.
in the same partition, data may be mixed and damaged...

[bobzr]

Thank you all for your replies and comments. I'm new here and I appreciate this Sabayon community. CAn't wait to test 4.2 and I do hope that all the issues have been fixed. As for using one or more home partition, it's a personal choice. I think that for those like me who like to test and use several distros, it's better to have a unique HOme partition, with different directories and different user names of course. No distro is supposed to interfere, change, move or do anything on Home, apart for its own folder. Even my Songbird profile was messed up, I had to recover it from a backup, replacing the pref.js. My Songbird profile is located in a separate folder on the Home partition. It seems that Sabayon has messed up ALL "pref.js" files used by Mozilla softwares wherever it found them in the Home partition!