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 additional information, but I don´t know what to do about it.. BTW, I don´t know if this is significant, but notice that the timestamp in the log abrubtly jumps back and forth 2 hours. I checked and saw a log entry that ntpd was disabled, but that also seems to be only partialy true, because later on the time jumped back to what it should be. tail -300 syslog | grep kdm Dec 20 22:09:17 shlomo1 kdm_config[4076]: Invalid option value 'All' at /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc:52 Dec 20 22:09:39 shlomo1 kdm: :0[4823]: Can't update authorization file in home dir /home/solomon Dec 20 20:09:39 shlomo1 kdm: :0[4823]: Can't create authorization file in /tmp Dec 20 20:09:39 shlomo1 kdm: :0[4823]: Cannot chdir to solomon's home /home/solomon: Permission denied, using / Dec 20 20:09:39 shlomo1 kdm: :0[4823]: Cannot create fallback session log file /tmp/xerr-solomon-:0: Permission denied Dec 20 20:09:39 shlomo1 kdm: :0[4823]: Session "/etc/X11/xdm/Xsession" execution failed: Permission denied Dec 20 20:09:39 shlomo1 kdm: :0[4823]: Failsafe client "/usr/bin/xterm" execution failed: Permission denied Dec 20 22:09:41 shlomo1 kdm: :0[4116]: Can't update authorization file in home dir /home/solomon Dec 20 22:18:42 shlomo1 kdm: :0[6222]: Can't update authorization file in home dir /home/solomon Dec 20 20:18:42 shlomo1 kdm: :0[6222]: Can't create authorization file in /tmp Dec 20 20:18:42 shlomo1 kdm: :0[6222]: Cannot chdir to solomon's home /home/solomon: Permission denied, using / Dec 20 20:18:42 shlomo1 kdm: :0[6222]: Cannot create fallback session log file /tmp/xerr-solomon-:0: Permission denied Dec 20 20:18:42 shlomo1 kdm: :0[6222]: Session "/etc/X11/xdm/Xsession" execution failed: Permission denied Dec 20 20:18:42 shlomo1 kdm: :0[6222]: Failsafe client "/usr/bin/xterm" execution failed: Permission denied Dec 20 22:18:44 shlomo1 kdm: :0[4924]: Can't update authorization file in home dir /home/solomon On Dec 20, 2007 10:03 PM, Ori Idan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 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 reason, not include the names of the home directories. > > I verified that /etc/passwd is OK. > > > > Does anyone have any suggestions? > > > > Since I can get into my system (I don´t want to run as root), I´m > > sending this from a different system via gmail, so please CC replies > > to my Gmail account. > > > > > > Shlomo Solomon > > > > > > -- > ספרים וסיפורים שכתבתי: http://www.thestories.org
