missing /home

2007-12-20 Thread shlomo solomon
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

Re: missing /home

2007-12-20 Thread Ori Idan
It seems as if for some reason the /home partition was not mounted when you tried to log it. -- 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

Re: missing /home

2007-12-20 Thread Alon Altman
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

Re: missing /home

2007-12-20 Thread shlomo solomon
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

Re: missing /home

2007-12-20 Thread shlomo solomon
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,

Re: missing /home

2007-12-20 Thread Alon Altman
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

Re: missing /home

2007-12-20 Thread shlomo solomon
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

Re: missing /home

2007-12-20 Thread Alon Altman
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

Re: missing /home

2007-12-20 Thread Alon Altman
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

Re: missing /home

2007-12-20 Thread shlomo solomon
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.

Re: missing /home

2007-12-20 Thread shlomo solomon
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

Re: missing /home

2007-12-20 Thread Omer Zak
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