Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 199141
User directories under /home disappear
Last modified: 2008-05-06 12:07:51 EDT
Description of problem: User dirs under /home disappear after logging into root (from the login screen), logging out and then trying to login to a user account. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.17-1.2157_FC5 How reproducible: Consistently on 3 seperate systems with different hardware configurations. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Login under your normal user account. 2. Logout. 3. Login as root. 4. Open a terminal and `ls -al /home` (user dir is still there) 5. Logout 6. Try to login as a normal user again and it fails saying your user dir doesn't exist. 7. Login as root. 8. Open a terminal and `ls -al /home` (user dir is NOT there) 9. Reboot 10. Login now works again and user directories are visible. Actual results: Home dirs are gone. Expected results: Home dirs should still exist. Additional info: For further testing, I did a fresh install and did `yum update` only and disabled selinux. No other changes made.
I thought this was a kernel issue at first but it has been narrowed to KDE only. Gnome does not have this issue. When logging out of root session from KDE, it appears to umount /home. Even if I go back and remount it, it gets umounted again. Reboot is required. All systems are fully updated as of this morning and issue persists. With the exception of tweaking iptables and disabling selinux, no other mods have been made.
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