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