I finished installing Gentoo Linux 2005.1 after a long 16 hour struggle on my system ( Pentium III, 256MB ram, 2 x 20GB ATA hard disks, CDRW drive, optical scroll mouse ). The first package ( and its dependencies) that I installed from the Packages CD was gdm. emerge -k gdm It installed fine and allowed both root and non-root users to log in. But gnome and openoffice were not installed yet. So I emerged x11followed by openoffice-bin. After that finished, I found that I could not log in as a non root user from gdm. I then tried logging in as a non root user at the command line console. My username is "anirban". Again, I could not log in and it said that my home directory was not found. /home/anirban - directory not found I then logged in as root and tried su anirban Again it gave the same message : home directory not found. But I checked and found the directory /home/anirban existed and its permissions were rwxr-xr-x and its owership was anirban.
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