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!
Log in as root, and watch /var/log/messages, /var/log/secure, and /var/log/audit/audit.log while a "normal" user logs in.
# tail -n0 -f /var/log/messages /var/log/secure /var/log/audit/audit.log
So, my normal user is left logged in at /root.
/root or / ? The two are different, and non-root users should not have access to /root
My next step is to take a look at the gnome startup script vs startx to see if I can figure out the differences if no one has encountered this before.
startx runs the X server, which will in turn run an X session. Gnome doesn't have a "startup script" per se, but if it did, it would be an X session, something that runs after / under startx. There's nothing there to compare.
However, you could capture startx output and execution for debugging:
$ sh -x /usr/bin/startx > startx.trace 2>&1
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.