[MetalheadGautham]

Hi All!

I just finished installing debian lenny testing.(version june 5th 200
After entering the single user mode, I did a apt-get sudo and an apt-get kde. Then once KDE installed, I did a restart and went into KDM menu. I am not able to log in, and I get issues stating that locations in ~ are not accessable.

I had a /home partition seperately for Ubuntu before, and I kept it through the debian install.

So whats the problem guys ?

[Jonathan183]

At a guess I'd say either your user name has changed ... so your user folder does not exist or you are trying to use an old home area and need to chown -R the home folder so your Debian user can access it. Check /etc/passwd contents to confirm user home folder, check the home folder exists and is owned by your Debian user.

You may want to try creating a new user and confirm that the new user can login without issues. That should help narrow things down.

[jledhead]

are you trying to login with a normal user or root?

are you getting errors when you try to login?

ctrl+alt+F1
login
tail -f /var/log/messages
and 
tail -f /var/log/auth

[MetalheadGautham]

Here is the situation:

1. my home already exists
2. I use the same /home as ubuntu hardy

so any solution ?

Originally Posted by Jonathan183

At a guess I'd say either your user name has changed ... so your user folder does not exist or you are trying to use an old home area and need to chown -R the home folder so your Debian user can access it. Check /etc/passwd contents to confirm user home folder, check the home folder exists and is owned by your Debian user.

even I think ownership or mounting is the issue.
please tell me how do I change ownership via single user mode commandline.

PS: I hate having to work on my dead windows xp's safe mode

[MetalheadGautham]

Update: I fixed the issue.

used chown for getting my folder for myself. Time to learn KDE now.