Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Error Message When Loading into Gnome

2009-09-04 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:33:55 -0400 Nick Khamis wrote: > That does not fail. I can cd /root/Desktop perfectly. What I decided to do > is a fresh install to see where it was that I went wrong. fstab and mtab > looked ok. > > I did load the live cd, mounted and chrooted over and saw that echo $HOME

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Error Message When Loading into Gnome

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
That does not fail. I can cd /root/Desktop perfectly. What I decided to do is a fresh install to see where it was that I went wrong. fstab and mtab looked ok. I did load the live cd, mounted and chrooted over and saw that echo $HOME did return /root. If I do not make mistakes I will not learn. T

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Error Message When Loading into Gnome

2009-09-03 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:21:38 -0400 Nick Khamis wrote: > Thank you so much for your response, I am sitting behind the machine right > now. (I know we are not suppose to but I just want it to be working as > expected) Basically when using root user and logging into console I get my > first suspicio

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Error Message When Loading into Gnome

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
Hey Walt, Thank you so much for your response, I am sitting behind the machine right now. (I know we are not suppose to but I just want it to be working as expected) Basically when using root user and logging into console I get my first suspicious message, "No direcotory, logging in with HOME=/",

[gentoo-user] Re: Error Message When Loading into Gnome

2009-09-03 Thread walt
On 09/03/2009 03:38 PM, Nick Khamis wrote: Hello Everyone, Please disregard any previous emails from me, I was using a differnt computer to send emails then my almost alive gentoo box (can't wait) Just a few porblems with this fresh install: When logging into gnome I presented with the follwoi