On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 20:36, thaiv@brandeis.edu wrote:
Hi All,
I installed Suse 9.0 pro onto my desktop at work and everything seemed to work fine. However when I tried to long in as a user, I get the following error:
"no write to $Home directory (/)" "KDE unable to start ksmserver"
I can log in as root with out any problems. And everything seems to be running fine as root. I think something might have gone wrong when the system created my user account. Not sure if this is right or not or how to fix the system.
The system is a dual boot with windows 2000 and suse 9.0 pro. I set up the suse portion of the harddrive with a root partition and also a home partition. I can give more info. if required.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance. Vu
Sounds like the home directory for your user was not created or is not
specified in the passwd file correctly.
Since you can get in as root you can take a look at the /etc/passwd
file. You should see the user you are trying to log in as listed and
the sixth item in that users entry should be something like /home/user
(user is the id of the user you are trying to log in as).
I suspect that this field is blank or has / in it.
To fix it you can do several things. Either edit the passwd file and
add the entry. ( use vipw to do this)
Or if you are using the GUI tools go to the user/group tool and delete
the user and re-add it.
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Scot L. Harris