On 5 Mar, Bill wrote: > Hi Luke, > > Thanks for the reply. > > Just prior to receiving it I booted Mandrake into runlevel 3 and determined > that I could log into my user account that way, and access the contents of > my home directory, so the problem is not the Symlink.
It's only a problem from runlevel 5? Weird! Yes, if you can get to /home/bill from runlevel 3, the problem can't be with the symlink - although ... > By the way, df -k /home shows the following:- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# df -k /home > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda5 5542276 3212340 2048400 62% / Well, that's interesting, since it says that /home is on the root partition (/dev/hda5), not the /dev/hda7 partition (/mnt/hda7) as you thought. > I tried creating a new user account, but received the message :- > > "cannot lock user lib, file /etc/ptmp or /etc/gtmp exist" > > I renamed these files to "old...." and could then create a new user. > > On rebooting, the new user didn't show in kdm, nor would kdm accept the new > user name and password - ditto for trying to login to Gnome etc. You should definitely don't need to reboot to activate a new user! > Tried using UserDrake to check new user account, only to once again receive > the above message re ptmp/gtmp. > > > Seems as though the problem may be with the user lib, whatever that is. I can't say I understand that. > Nope. Mandrake installed first, and /home created on separate partition as > part of install. Okay; and it created it just as a directory within /, not using /dev/hda7. luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
