[SOLVED]Formated home disk

Coalms · 2020-07-08 06:41:15

Posted here(installation)since i think its the most relevant :

Recently i accidentaly formated my /home disk when i was playing around with fdisk,so I went to rescue reformated mkfs.ext4 /dev/homedisk and did genfstab again,now the problem is that I am unable to login,so i went to tty2,logged in and it said no home dir for user ME, and so i did mkdir /home/me ,but again I am not able to login through lighdm to any of my available DE, so I try to login as root to xfce,and it works,so at this point im lost...

fdisk -l :

/dev/sda1      2048  62916607  62914560    30G Linux root (x86-64)   This is /
/dev/sda2  62916608  70729727   7813120   3.7G Linux swap            This is swap
/dev/sda3  70729728  71778303   1048576   512M EFI System            This is /boot
/dev/sda4  71778304 468862094 397083791 189.4G Linux filesystem      This is /home

also:

lighdm.log: https://del.dog/grycostufi
Xorg.0.log: https://del.dog/ydolengyby.txt
Xorg.1.log: https://del.dog/orobicosog.txt
journalctl -b: https://del.dog/exizowirer

(well posting the entire journalctl through dogbin or pastebin is kind of hard atm,ask if needed)

Kind of confused of why this happens tho,i thought relavent files where created automatically ,and if not i wourld have thought it has somewthing to do with the window manager or desktop enviroment but neither of those is the problem,an explanation would be appreciated.

Last edited by Coalms (2020-07-09 03:24:09)

V1del · 2020-07-08 07:05:55

What are the permissions/uid/gid of /home/me ? Check/post

stat /home/me

See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Users_and_groups#Change_a_user's_login_name_or_home_directory for how to properly generate a home dir. They should be 0755 and owned by your user and its relevant gid

Trilby · 2020-07-08 12:38:16

Coalms wrote:

i thought relavent files where created automatically

What do you mean "automatically"? They certainly aren't created by magic. Automaticity just refers to a process that does a munch of stuff for you. Several files are created "automatically" when you create a user as directed in the wiki, but if you don't run `useradd`, then there is no process to automatically do anything.

Coalms · 2020-07-08 19:25:54

Trilby wrote:

Coalms wrote:
i thought relavent files where created automatically
What do you mean "automatically"? They certainly aren't created by magic. Automaticity just refers to a process that does a munch of stuff for you. Several files are created "automatically" when you create a user as directed in the wiki, but if you don't run `useradd`, then there is no process to automatically do anything.

Im sorry I might have unintentionally misinformed you in my post,the user and home and everything existed from before but formated,core settings and others that are saved in root are sll kept in another partition safe from the chaos of my destruction, what im trying to fix is the " relationship " of root and home partitions( or folders) ,the user exists,since I am able to login through tty2(when /home/coal does not exist I also get an error on login but everything runs fine, making a "coal" folder does solve the mesage but still cannot login through lightdm on any dm ) thats also why V1del's post seemed wierd to me since norhing changed on the disc or stracture of the folders at all not even /dev/sda4 naming everything is the same except with a new UUID since i re-formated with mkfs.ext4 after i "corrupted "(for luck of a better word) my partition

Things il probably when i get home and update you tomorrow:

stat /home/coal (maybe as V1del implies I have "locked"my user out of this folder due to lack of permissions)

also @V1del I think I have already tried

 usermod -d /home/coal -m coal

(from the wiki) or something similar both when I had created or even before the making of /home/coal folder with a reply nothing chsnged or nothing done or something along those lines,will redo tonight,havent tried linking the folder tho ,but linking to itself wourld be impossible wouldn't it?

Last edited by Coalms (2020-07-08 19:29:21)

Coalms · 2020-07-09 03:23:34

yeah turns out it was a permission problem,thanks to V1del for that once more

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#1 2020-07-08 06:41:15

[SOLVED]Formated home disk

#2 2020-07-08 07:05:55

Re: [SOLVED]Formated home disk

#3 2020-07-08 12:38:16

Re: [SOLVED]Formated home disk

#4 2020-07-08 19:25:54

Re: [SOLVED]Formated home disk

#5 2020-07-09 03:23:34

Re: [SOLVED]Formated home disk

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