Gnome Desktop (two home folders two Trashcans)

**Cue** · 01-01-2008

Hello everyone

I am very new to linux and recently installed Scientific Linux on an old machine.
I created a user called Shahin and everything was fine on the gnome desktop, I had a Home folder, Trash, Computer etc. after experimenting with linux for a while (SSH, remote desktop, X forwarding) I logged back on to the gnome desktop on the local machine and

I hade two folders

''Shahin's home'' and ''home''. ''Shahin's home'' opened /home/Shahin but it did not give me write premission for some folders which I previously had premmision for. ''home'' gave an error ''Couldn't find "/$HOME".''

even though HOME=/home/Shahin was set

there were also two trashcans one which had an icon with paper in (but was empty) and one which was empty (which I think was the real trash can since it had the 'empty trash' option when right clicked)

What is the likely cause of this and how can I avoid it in the future?

Thanks

**devils casper** · 01-01-2008

Execute this

Code:

ls -l /home

Post output here.

**Cue** · 01-02-2008

Hi devils_casper

I am at uni right now so I had to do it through ssh ( dont think it matters but I dont know much). here is the output

Code:

total 8
drwx------ 28 Shahin users 4096 Jan  1 21:23 Shahin

edit: I'll try it on the local machine when I get home.

**devils casper** · 01-02-2008

Permissions of /home/Shahin folder have been changed but it should allow user Shahin to create/edit files.
Try re-setting permissions.

Code:

chmod -R 755 /home/Shahin
chown -R Shahin:users /home/Shahin

Check if user Shahin has all permissions in /home/Shahin folder.
Execute this

Code:

ls -l /home/Shahin

Post output here.

**Cue** · 01-02-2008

changed permissions

Code:

total 4988
drwxr-xr-x 2 Shahin users    4096 Dec 14 02:07 3DDesktop
drwxr-xr-x 3 Shahin users    4096 Oct 18 23:15 CLHEP-2.0.3.2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 Shahin users 5048972 Oct 19 15:53 clhep-2.0.3.2-src.tgz
drwxr-xr-x 2 Shahin users    4096 Jan  1 12:19 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x 2 Shahin users    4096 Dec 14 02:06 Drivers
drwxr-xr-x 3 Shahin users    4096 Dec 19 01:12 geant4

premissions are fine now but I am curious as to why this happened. Also should I now just delete the extra thrash can and 'home' folder on the desktop.

**devils casper** · 01-02-2008

I dont know how did you change those permissions. Did you execute chmod command earlier too?

Also should I now just delete the extra thrash can and 'home' folder on the desktop.

I am not sure about it. ls -l is not listing extra Trash and home folders. Are those folders located at Desktop?
Execute this

Code:

ls -a /home/Shahin/Desktop

**Cue** · 01-02-2008

yes they are located on the desktop. I deleted the extra trash can but I think the extra 'home' is still there.

here is the output

Code:

.  ..  .directory  Home.desktop  System.desktop

I think it has something to do with KDE since I think they appear after starting a KDE session then switching to gnome.

**Thrillhouse** · 01-02-2008

I think the trash folders are located in /home/username but are linked to on the desktop for Gnome. Try:

Code:

ls -a /home/Shahin

My guess is that you have two different users' trash on your desktop or you just have two desktop icons pointing to the same trash. Either way, you should be able to remove one easily.

**devils casper** · 01-02-2008

Its not listing any Trash folder and Home folder is a link of your Home ( /home/Shahin ) only. Either keep it as it is or delete it. Nothing will go wrong.

**Thrillhouse** · 01-02-2008

Well, the trash folder is hidden in home so it wouldn't be shown in any of the commands that he has run so far.

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