Bug#402087: Would be nice to fix this...

["Phil Endecott" <phil_mntqb_endecott@chezphil.org>]

I've just installed a new system and hit this confusing "no error 
message if $HOME doesn't exist" problem again.  It would be great if 
the code I proposed before, i.e.

# Warn if the user's home directory does not exist.
# It seems that $HOME is set to / after this script
# is executed, so we can't just compare $HOME with ~$USER.
if [ ! -d `eval echo ~$USER` ]
then
  xmessage "Home directory does not exist!"
fi

could be added to /etc/X11/xdm/Xstartup.  Thanks.


Phil.