[gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?

[gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?

[Nick Khamis]

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No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/ is this a mount issue. Ican start
gentoo but nothing works, cannot start firefox, console etc... I get the no
direcotry message when I log in using console.

Regards,
Ninus

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Re: [gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Donnerstag 03 September 2009, Nick Khamis wrote:
> No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/ is this a mount issue. Ican start
> gentoo but nothing works, cannot start firefox, console etc... I get the no
> direcotry message when I log in using console.
> 
> Regards,
> Ninus
> 

well, do you have /home in fstab? was /home/$USER created when you created 
your user?

Re: [gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?

[Alan McKinnon]

On Thursday 03 September 2009 22:41:29 Nick Khamis wrote:
> No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/ is this a mount issue. Ican start
> gentoo but nothing works, cannot start firefox, console etc... I get the no
> direcotry message when I log in using console.


Three options:

The file system containing /home is not mounted when you log in
Your home directory was never created (useradd needs -m to do that)
Your home directory as per fstab does not agree with what it's actually called 
(perhaps you renamed your home directory)

Either way, what the system thinks is your home directory isn't there.


-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?

[Nick Khamis]

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I just created a new user and the home firecotry is fine. However my root
user has no home. I did not rename it and /dev/sda3 is mounted. I tries
useradd -m root, I am getting useradd:user root exists.

fstab - dev/sda3        /                  ext3              noatime

Thanks in Advnaced,
Ninus

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Re: [gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Donnerstag 03 September 2009, Nick Khamis wrote:
> I just created a new user and the home firecotry is fine. However my root
> user has no home. I did not rename it and /dev/sda3 is mounted. I tries
> useradd -m root, I am getting useradd:user root exists.
> 
> fstab - dev/sda3        /                  ext3              noatime
> 
> Thanks in Advnaced,
> Ninus
> 

root does not have a home in /home.

root's home is /root

Re: [gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?

[Nick Khamis]

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Yes of course.... Now when I fire up gnome, I see nothing on my desktop and
nothing is working (cannot open console, or firefox etc..). I When I
load gnome I see:

"please contact your system administration to resolve the follwoing issue:
could not resolve the address "xml:readwrite:d/.gconf" in the configuration
file "/etc/gconf/path" : Failed could not make direcotry 'd/.gconf': No such
file or direcotry.

isusing a startx as root from console.

Your Help Is Greatly Apprecated,

Regards,
Ninus

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Re: [gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?

[Nick Khamis]

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Ok I just created a new user and gnome works fine, but with my root it is
getting the errors described above.

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Re: [gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Donnerstag 03 September 2009, Nick Khamis wrote:
> Ok I just created a new user and gnome works fine, but with my root it is
> getting the errors described above.
> 

well - you shall never log into X as root anyway.

Re: [gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?

[Nick Khamis]

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Yes for sure, hmmm but its broken an I want to fix it. I have logged into X
using root just earlier today and now when I log into console using root I
get the "No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/". I would like to fix this.
fstab is as per the gentoo documentation.

Regards,
Ninus

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Re: [gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?

[Nick Khamis]

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oops. I think trying to fiz my original problem of gnome+root, I invented a
new one root console + error message (No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/).
This is not an error root has /root not home so when someone logs into
console using root this message will always show? Sorry about that

Regards,
Ninus.

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Re: [gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?

[Allan Gottlieb]

At Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:41:29 -0400 Nick Khamis <symack@gmail.com> wrote:

> No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/ is this a mount issue. Ican start
> gentoo but nothing works, cannot start firefox, console etc... I get the no
> direcotry message when I log in using console.

Well does the user have an accessible home directory?

What does /etc/passwd contain and then, starting from root,
does the user have access to the entire path leading to the home
directory?

allan