Hi Dave, thanks for joining in./mnt/home is the result of wrongly thinking that I can only mount dirs in /mnt . But unmounting /dev/hda10, mounting it in /home instead, gives the same "no shell" output as before. For simplicity's sake I changed fstab as you suggested.
ls -ld /home drwxrwxrwx 11 root users 4096 Oct 8 23:55 /home
ls -las /home total 120 4 drwxrwxrwx 11 root users 4096 Oct 8 23:55 . 60 drw-rw---- 24 root root 57344 Oct 10 18:46 .. 4 drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Jun 7 20:16 .xvpics 4 drwxrwxrwx 4 root users 4096 Aug 8 00:39 KDE 12 drw-rw---- 77 avh avh 12288 Oct 7 03:05 avh 16 drwxrwxrwx 2 root users 16384 May 4 02:23 lost+found 4 drwxrwxrwx 2 1002 root 4096 Oct 6 23:52 mcr 4 drwxrwxrwx 4 root users 4096 Sep 2 21:44 pool 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 1004 test 4096 Oct 8 23:07 test 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 1005 test2 4096 Oct 8 23:55 test2 4 drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 May 9 08:56 tmp "total 120" looks terribly wrong to me. is it wrong?("user" KDE is a Backup-dir of deb packtets for KDE 1.2, will store it elsewhere and move/delete all non-user dirs; KDE, interestingly, did not show when I had hda10 mounted as /mnt/home/* - perhaps something that resembles your own problem of some time ago that you described)
Before changing the mountpoint I ran the tests you suggested, here is the output:
ls -ld /mnt/home drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 2 01:41 /mnt/home ls -las /mnt/home total 8 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 2 01:41 . 4 drwxrwxr-x 17 root users 4096 Sep 1 23:27 .. Dave Sherohman wrote:
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 04:43:59PM +0200, pirmin2 wrote:cedar:~# ls -ld /home lrwxrwxrwx 1 root users 9 May 4 02:54 /home -> /mnt/home cedar:~# ls -las /home 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root users 9 May 4 02:54 /home -> /mnt/homeFirst off, to save karsten the trouble: Please send the output of ls -ld /mnt/home ls -las /mnt/home to the list. Perhaps more to the point, though, I've noticed on one of my systems that some things tend to behave... strangely when user home directories are under symlinks. Is there a particular reason for your home partition to be mounted on /mnt/home instead of just putting it physically under /home? If not, I would suggest changing /home to a real directory and mounting it there. If that's not feasible, then consider editing /etc/passwd to change the user home directories from /home/user to /mnt/home/user.