No home directory?

[ryanmission]

my main user, not root..is missing its home directory or something...when i try to log in...it says No directory /home/xxxx...however...the actual directory is still there...and when i try to log in by from root using "su xxxx" it says bin/bash permission denied...

[anomie]

Three pieces of info would go a long way in helping you solve this problem. (Just copy and paste the results of the commands here.)

1. ls -l /bin/bash

2. ls -ld /home/your_user_here

3. grep 'your_user_here' /etc/passwd

In #2 and #3, substitute your_user_here with the user account you're having trouble with.

[ryanmission]

Three pieces of info would go a long way in helping you solve this problem. (Just copy and paste the results of the commands here.)

1. ls -l /bin/bash

2. ls -ld /home/your_user_here

3. grep 'your_user_here' /etc/passwd

In #2 and #3, substitute your_user_here with the user account you're having trouble with.

i did the above and this was the output:

1) -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 501804 Jun 2 10:34 /bin/bash

2) drwx------ 25 ryan users 1624 Nov 2 15:11 /home/ryan

note: i chmod'd this to 700 for no particular reason...just seeing if i could fix it..lol..which i didnt.

3) ryan: x:1000:100: Ryan B:/home/ryan:/bin/bash

note: space added cause of dumb smilies lol.

[anomie]

It's pretty strange. Was this ever working (and then stopped)? Or was it always broken following the install?

What happens if you create a new user? Same problem?

[ryanmission]

yes, it was working for a long time, then i chmod'd a user permission, and i tried to log into another using using "su xxxxx", and it said bin/bash/ permission denied....and it was doing that for ALL the users...i could only log into root..so i closed the Konsole terminal...and went to re-open it..figuring it was maybe bugged...and when i clicked on Konsole to open it again...it said something like, "Konsole is malformed", and it wouldnt open. so i was going to restart the computer...and i went to log off, and the window that popped up when i clicked it was a grey box, and it had 2 buttons...on each button was a bunch of [][][][][][][][][][][][] boxes, as if it was trying to display something in a font i didnt have?...then i clicked one, and the computer went into a blue GUI log in screen...where i was prompted to type in a username, and a password...when i entered my normal non-root user name / password...and it accepted the password, loaded a bit, switched to console for a second, and returned to the GUI log in...so then i tried root username/password...and it brings me to the YaST2 control center...if i user console to log in, only root works if i try anything else it will say permission denied, if i try my main non-root user, it says no directory /home/ryan...*deep breath*

[anomie]

returned to the GUI log in...so then i tried root username/password...and it brings me to the YaST2 control center

Maybe just create a new user from there. Then log in as that new user. Not the most elegant way out of this, but hopefully it'll work.

[ryanmission]

yes but i dont think that will that fix me not being able to log into ANY other users?

[ryanmission]

so i tried making a new user, but it didnt work because i cant log into it anyways.. *cries*

[kraken]

Probably you will need to reinstall the system. If you do not like to reinstall the system create directory manyallu like:

mkdir /home/[your name]

You can assign your uses to use this directory as a home directory with Yast and then coose the user and then choose home directory for the user. You can do it in command line also. Just see how works 'adduser'