[SOLVED] Changing Path Directory when Installing Files

LongDistance · 2017-02-17 04:53:18

Sorry for the asking this but I just can't seem to figure it out.

When I added my user to my system I must have made two users, 'ld' and 'ethan'. I login to arch with ethan but all my files are located in

/home/ld/

I deleted the directory with all the files and now when installing packages it installs them to /home how can I change this to /home/ethan

Again sorry for the inconvenience.

Last edited by LongDistance (2017-02-17 06:13:43)

jasonwryan · 2017-02-17 04:56:00

pacman doesn't touch /home. What is installing packages there?

LongDistance · 2017-02-17 04:57:45

jasonwryan wrote:

pacman doesn't touch /home. What is installing packages there?

Trying to install packages xorg to run startx.

also like to add I reinstalled xorg and when I run 'startx' I get

xauth: error in locking authority file /home/ld/.xauthority

fatal server error:

cannot open log file "/home/ld/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log"

Last edited by LongDistance (2017-02-17 05:04:35)

jasonwryan · 2017-02-17 05:08:08

Who are you logged in as?

LongDistance · 2017-02-17 05:24:47

ethan,

In /etc/passwd I did not see 'ld' listed and I changed the line

ethan:x:1000:100::/home/ld:/bin/bash
to
ethan:x:1000:100::/home/ethan:/bin/bash

I then reinstalled xorg-server xorg-xinit xorg-server-utils

Still giving me the same error as above.

Last edited by LongDistance (2017-02-17 05:25:55)

Scimmia · 2017-02-17 05:27:30

So your homedir was set wrong. Log out and log back in.

LongDistance · 2017-02-17 05:33:33

Scimmia wrote:

So your homedir was set wrong. Log out and log back in.

logged out and back in,ran 'startx'

'xauth: timeout in locking authority file /home/ethan/.Xauthority'

I believe I need to redirect xorg to install its files in '/home/ethan' right? If so, how?

Scimmia · 2017-02-17 05:35:11

No. For the last time, none of this has anything to do with the packages.

Sounds like you don't have the right permissions on the new homedir?

LongDistance · 2017-02-17 05:41:50

How do I figure out if I do? And their are no files in the homedir anyways.

I think I just need to put the .xorg files in the homedir but I'm not familiar on how to do this? I may be wrong.

Last edited by LongDistance (2017-02-17 05:44:19)

LongDistance · 2017-02-17 06:13:11

sudo chown ethan /home/ethan

Arch Linux

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