Joe Hart wrote:
Joe-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 andy wrote:Hi all I have just installed Deb Etch onto my wife's computer, preserving her pre-existing /home directory. The installation was flawless until I went to go and login as her and am being denied access at the gdm login screen. The messages refer to the $HOME/.dmrc saying that it will be ignored, and that the $HOME directory must be owned by the user and have 644 permissions and not writable by other users. Click OK and then I get a dialog box informing me that my session lasted less than 10 seconds. When I look at the ~/.xsession-errors file I am informed that it cannot create the per-user gnome configuration directory .gnome2_private: permission denied. In a word: help! Did I do something wrong or did I skip out a step? When I installed my Debian system I didn't try and preserve a pre-existing /home directory. I am scared of fiddling just in case I toast her data (in which case, I'll be toast!!). Any ideas please? Cheers /AAndy, don't despair. the data is still there. Most likely it is either a userid problem or a permissions problem. Log in from a tty (alt-F1 for example) as root. Depending on which distro you ran before, it could be a userid problem. Debian users begin at userid 1000 but not all do. Mandriva for example begins with 500. If you're root and do a ls -la /home you should see the owners, if it's a number and not a name, that's your clue. In that case you need to change the owner of her /home directory to her with the chown command. If the permissions are wrong, you can change them with the chmod command. Good luck. Joe -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF2JmviXBCVWpc5J4RAnwyAJ0X4LCZ8MYMerUcGUpaoceeW9cZQwCcCv1U ZP1iHpShi97Hsm2BwKo+IRw= =Re3d -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Thanks man - you are a bacon saver!! I did as you suggested and discovered that it was all 500, so chown'd the directory and have now logged in Thanks so much Joe Much appreciated /A |