I have a strange problem. When I try to login with any user, except
for root, I get an error message saying that the userś home directory
doesn´t exist. I verified that this is NOT true. All home directories
seem to be intact. I GOOGLED and found a suggestion that /etc/passwd
could, for some
It seems as if for some reason the /home partition was not mounted when you
tried to log it.
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Ori Idan
On Dec 20, 2007 9:52 PM, shlomo solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a strange problem. When I try to login with any user, except
for root, I get an error message saying that the
Check the permissions on /home and /home/user. The user must have +x on
/home and +rx on /home/user. Try to su to the user and check if you can
access its home directory.
On 12/20/07, shlomo solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a strange problem. When I try to login with any user, except
No, as I already wrote, all the home directories are OK. I should have
specifically written that when I login as root, I can cd to them all.
I also tried creating a new user and after verifying that the new user
AND home directory were created, I couldn login as the new user
either.
I have some
On Dec 20, 2007 10:36 PM, Alon Altman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Check the permissions on /home and /home/user. The user must have +x on
/home and +rx on /home/user. Try to su to the user and check if you can
access its home directory.
Already tried that - permissons are correct.
As far as su,
Even if you can cd to the directories as root does not mean that you can
read/write there as user. Please supply the output of ls -la /home (as
root).
Alon
On 12/20/07, shlomo solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No, as I already wrote, all the home directories are OK. I should have
On Dec 20, 2007 11:01 PM, Alon Altman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Even if you can cd to the directories as root does not mean that you can
read/write there as user. Please supply the output of ls -la /home (as
root).
Alon
At the moment, I´m using a rescue partition on the same box. So I
Another reason kde could fail to write is lack of disk space. Is /home full
or close to full?
Alon
On 12/20/07, shlomo solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Dec 20, 2007 11:01 PM, Alon Altman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Even if you can cd to the directories as root does not mean that you can
On 12/20/07, shlomo solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Dec 20, 2007 11:01 PM, Alon Altman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Even if you can cd to the directories as root does not mean that you can
read/write there as user. Please supply the output of ls -la /home (as
root).
Alon
At the
On Dec 20, 2007 11:36 PM, Alon Altman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Another reason kde could fail to write is lack of disk space. Is /home full
or close to full?
No - over 20 Gb free on /home.
BTW - itś not a KDE problem. I can login from a console (Ctl-Alt-1) either.
On Dec 20, 2007 11:50 PM, shlomo solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Dec 20, 2007 11:36 PM, Alon Altman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Another reason kde could fail to write is lack of disk space. Is /home full
or close to full?
No - over 20 Gb free on /home.
BTW - itś not a KDE problem. I can
When checking for free disk space, check also inodes (by df -i).
According to past experience, when a partition runs out of inodes,
sometimes the system manages to continue to work and erratically fail
(when processes need to create new files without deleting others
beforehand).
Another shot in
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