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Toni.69

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[RETIRED] toni: /home/toni: change directory failed: Permission denied

I am VERY new to Arch but I have managed to get it working twice, on two separate drives.

The first drive has been absolutely perfect for over a week until I installed Linux on a separate drive. (init drive was an SSD with limited storage, have a two tb hard drive to put games and stuff on )

I tried mounting the darned partitions of my SSD into the hard drive but after being unable to get access to my steam drives (mounting working, for the most part, outside of access to steam because I was unable to find my non-flatpak install.)

I boot off my 2 tb and try and boot into my SSD. Booted into the standard "inq blah blah" and then into the [ok] section. Outside of issues with Bluetooth (not needed at all) and WiFi (") and being told that sdd1 (my SSD boot partition) was not unmounted properly, it went on.

I use sddm for my login, and all I got was a black screen with a mouse curser. Ctl-alt-del did nothing on that screen, but CTL-ALT-F1 and then CTL-ALT-DEL does reset. For what it might be worth, tty2 was my sddm for some reason.

No terminal access, except being able to see the final console outputs of the booting in tty1.

I deleted xorg, and sddm and after being able to more easily work on the machine with an iso, I am finally at a login screen.

Now,, here's where I have no clue about what to do.

If I login as my sudo user, I get through my "'overlord' login: toni" and once I get to password, I type it in, and on enter, it displays for a split second the following error: " -toni: /home/toni: change directory failed: Permission denied."

Logging in as root with the corresponding password gets me into the [root@overlord ~]# console.

I have no idea how to copy paste logs from a system that is in this state, nor console outputs or anything.

I have typed a lot of stuff by hand because I KNOW this place hates oversized photo-of-pc-screen images. If anyone could help me, and explain to me how to get any logs/texts they need from my drive to this forum, I will gladly do that.

Thank you in advance!

Edit: I'm somewhat confident that my fiddling with the perms of my SSD through my 2tb hd is what led to this, but I still have no idea what to really look for

Edit 2: my fstab was also heavily modified (on my SSD) and I don't remember messing it up that crazily. Majority of my Linux partitions were duplicated for some reason.

Last edited by Toni.69 (2024-08-28 22:43:53)

Toni.69

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Re: [RETIRED] toni: /home/toni: change directory failed: Permission denied

Bump.

V1del

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Re: [RETIRED] toni: /home/toni: change directory failed: Permission denied

There's no actable information here.

Assuming your service setup at least leaves you with a working network post your

cat /etc/fstab
lsblk -f
stat /home /home/toni

, see for how to directly provide pastes of these outputs https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_o … n_services

Toni.69

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Re: [RETIRED] toni: /home/toni: change directory failed: Permission denied

There's no actable information here.

Assuming your service setup at least leaves you with a working network post your

cat /etc/fstab
lsblk -f
stat /home /home/toni

# Static information about the filesystems.
# See fstab(5) for details.

# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# /dev/sdb3
UUID=f55b59ca-88f4-4331-a0fe-67152455e476       /               ext4            rw,relatime     0 1

# /dev/sdb1
UUID=2654-63AE          /boot           vfat            rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro   0 2

# /dev/sdb4
UUID=5b8533fb-b9ea-41d4-ab68-6574a0c48445       /home           ext4            rw,relatime     0 2

# /dev/sdb2
UUID=7faecfd0-b5a0-4947-8727-23f48df0fb50       none            swap            defaults        0 0

lsblk:

 NAME   FSTYPE FSVER LABEL        UUID                                 FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
sda                                                                                  
├─sda1 vfat   FAT32              8E65-55E2                                           
├─sda2 vfat   FAT32              18A7-38EC                                           
└─sda3 ntfs         1TB HDD, W11 9404A4DE04A4C498                                    
sdb                                                                                  
├─sdb1 vfat   FAT32              2654-63AE                             866.4M    15% /boot
├─sdb2 swap   1                  7faecfd0-b5a0-4947-8727-23f48df0fb50                [SWAP]
├─sdb3 ext4   1.0                f55b59ca-88f4-4331-a0fe-67152455e476    7.2G    74% /
└─sdb4 ext4   1.0                5b8533fb-b9ea-41d4-ab68-6574a0c48445    1.3T    22% /home
sdc                                                                                  
├─sdc1 vfat   FAT32              34E0-627F                                           
├─sdc2 swap   1                  aaed077f-211d-46ce-af43-540a0126b4b6                
├─sdc3 ext4   1.0                4c71ec4f-148e-4fff-9b18-00cd030fa3a5                
└─sdc4 ext4   1.0                ba00ad4e-8eda-421b-862e-9b9f2e7129a6 

stat:

File: /home
  Size: 4096            Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   directory
Device: 8,20    Inode: 2           Links: 4
Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
Access: 2024-08-27 00:52:39.696666250 +0000
Modify: 2024-04-20 15:04:30.426601813 +0000
Change: 2024-04-20 15:04:30.426601813 +0000
 Birth: 2024-04-20 14:35:02.000000000 +0000
  File: /home/toni
  Size: 4096            Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   directory
Device: 8,20    Inode: 94633985    Links: 35
Access: (0700/drwx------)  Uid: ( 1000/    toni)   Gid: (  984/   users)
Access: 2024-08-27 00:53:34.629999349 +0000
Modify: 2024-08-27 01:07:57.686662235 +0000
Change: 2024-08-27 01:07:57.686662235 +0000
 Birth: 2024-04-20 15:04:30.426601813 +0000

loqs

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Re: [RETIRED] toni: /home/toni: change directory failed: Permission denied

What is the home directory for user toni?

getent passwd toni

Toni.69

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Re: [RETIRED] toni: /home/toni: change directory failed: Permission denied

What is the home directory for user toni?

getent passwd toni

This is the output of that command, is this what you were looking for?

 toni:x:1000:984::/home/toni:/bin/bash

seth

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Re: [RETIRED] toni: /home/toni: change directory failed: Permission denied

If I login as my sudo user, I get through my "'overlord' login: toni" and once I get to password, I type it in, and on enter, it displays for a split second the following error: " -toni: /home/toni: change directory failed: Permission denied."

Logging in as root with the corresponding password gets me into the [root@overlord ~]# console.

Login as root, run

cd /tmp
su toni
whoami # toni
cd /home/toni

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