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From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Error Message When Loading into Gnome
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At Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:21:38 -0400 Nick Khamis <symack@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you so much for your response, I am sitting behind the machine right
> now. (I know we are not suppose to but I just want it to be working as
> expected) Basically when using root user and logging into console I get my
> first suspicious message, "No direcotory, logging in with HOME=/", when
> issuing a echo $HOME I am recieving "/"

At that point (right after issuing "echo $HOME") try cd /root.
If that fails (as it probably will), then post the output of
ls -ld / /root

allan