Home directory does not exist?

[TanoCaridi]

Hello everybody,

I have suse 10 installed in my computer. When i try to log in as usual as user, after typing the username and password, it produces an error which says:

'Your home directory is listed as :
"
but it does not appear to exist'

I might have changed the user home directory from yast accidentally. Is there a way to reset the user home directory if you login with root.

Also another problem I have is that when try to install gcc 4.2.1 from user directory after configuration and build has been completed, when i type 'make install' its says:

you can not create directory, permission denied.

Does anybody know how to solve this?

Thank you.

[anomie]

As root, run this command:
# usermod -d /home/user-name-here -m

Type it exactly, except you'll need to insert your user's name in place of user-name-here.

[TanoCaridi]

I already messed up everything by deleting and trying different commands. I am going to reinstall suse again.
Thank you anyway, is nice to know this command in case same thing happens again.

[kahoona]

Re-installation usually fixes those kinds of things, but you tend to learn more and feel better about using your Linux box if you can give it a little time to learn and work though those kinds of issues. Every thing you fix is a stepping stone to becoming a more powerful user of Linux.