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 > 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 >
