On 06/11/2015 08:28 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Kay Schenk wrote:
On 06/10/2015 10:06 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote:
On 06/10/2015 05:25 PM, Kay Schenk wrote:
I get /home/<username> not found when it's there and setup with correct permissions -- well here I am using it in run level 5 just fine!
<SNIP> >> The file "startx.trace" will have a list of all of the >> commands run, and all of their output (including errors). >> >> /var/log/X* might be interesting as well. > > OK, this last bit sounds promising although this works as expected for > root -- starts up gnome flawlessly. My previous setup imported settings > to use a display manager, etc. So, I need to check on this. > > Right now, one of my main concerns is that my old /home > partition/direction is supposedly associated WITH current users I setup > and yet...NOT! The system does not recognize this association even > though it asked me about setting it up when I created my first real user > on installation. I had to go in and reset uids but that's no biggie and > this process has worked fine before. I can't help but think this is > related to the startx issue.
I missed parts of this thread: are any of them mounted NFS? From root, su
- user, and then do ls -laF, and check the ownership and group,
*including* of ./ (the current directory).
I mention NFS because of issues we've been having here, but we're connected to AD, and I need to fix /etc/idmapd.conf to have our domain.
mark
Thanks for everyone's help. It seems the not locating /home for users was related to startx problem.
The /home partition in question had been an old one, ext3, and requested not to format. All that was well. Partition mounted, etc. Unfortunately, I had inadvertently installed selinux (OK, I saw that but didn't' understand the consequences) and this was what was causing my odd non-root user login behavior (couldn't locate /home) AND the startx problems from init 3 level. After talking to an RH admin colleague, all fine now. On to more fun items as I get up to speed on CentOS! :)