-----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 > > /A > > Andy, 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----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
