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On Tuesday 28 February 2006 12:13, Anirban Brahmachari wrote: |
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> I finished installing Gentoo Linux 2005.1 after a long 16 hour |
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> struggle on my system ( Pentium III, 256MB ram, 2 x 20GB ATA hard |
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> disks, CDRW drive, optical scroll mouse ). |
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> The first package ( and its dependencies) that I installed from the |
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> Packages CD was gdm. |
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> emerge -k gdm |
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> It installed fine and allowed both root and non-root users to log in. |
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> But gnome and openoffice were not installed yet. |
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> So I emerged x11followed by openoffice-bin. |
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> After that finished, I found that I could not log in as a non root |
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> user from gdm. |
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> I then tried logging in as a non root user at the command line console. |
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> My username is "anirban". |
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> Again, I could not log in and it said that my home directory was not found. |
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> /home/anirban - directory not found |
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> I then logged in as root and tried |
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> su anirban |
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> Again it gave the same message : home directory not found. |
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> But I checked and found the directory /home/anirban existed and its |
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> permissions were rwxr-xr-x and its owership was anirban. |
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> PLEASE HELP !! |
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Are you sure that /home/anirban is the home directory for that user? |
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Check /etc/passwd to be sure :) |
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Rick van Hattem Rick.van.Hattem(at)Fawo.nl |
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