Bug 121688 - Not finding home directory
Summary: Not finding home directory
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gdm
Version: rawhide
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Ray Strode [halfline]
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-04-25 20:37 UTC by andrew ducore
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2004-09-19 03:43:08 UTC
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Description andrew ducore 2004-04-25 20:37:02 UTC
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Description of problem:
When I attempt to log in as any user other than root, I get a dialog that states that my 
home directory is listed as /home/test (which is correct), but that the directory is not 
there (which is incorrect). The directory /home/test exists, and is owned by the test 
user. I was getting a similar problem when trying to log in on a TTY, but it went away 
and I have not been able to reproduce it there.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a new user named <user-name> using /usr/bin/system-config-users
2. Log out
3. Attempt to log in as <user-name>
    

Actual Results:  (used "test2" as <user-name>)

After entering the username and password, a dialog box appeared which said:
-------
Your home directory is listed as:
'/home/test2'
but it does not appear to exist. Do you want to log in with the /
(root) directory as your home directory?

It is unlikely anything will work unless you use a failsafe
session.

       <NO> <YES>
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Expected Results:  The user should have been logged into a gnome-session.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Mark McLoughlin 2004-06-04 11:49:14 UTC
Is this still happening with Fedora Core 2 final ?

Comment 2 andrew ducore 2004-06-04 13:53:27 UTC
No, it appears to have been fixed. Thanks!

Comment 3 Chun-lin Wang 2004-07-14 16:40:11 UTC
Yes!! it still exists.
After I upgrade from Fedora core 1 to core 2,
the bug still exists.

How should I do next solve the problem?


Comment 4 Ray Strode [halfline] 2004-07-14 17:15:09 UTC
Is /home a local partition or being served over a network?  Are you by
any chance using an auto mounter like autofs?

Comment 5 Warren Togami 2004-09-19 03:43:08 UTC
Closing due to inactivity and lack of response.


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