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chilebiker

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From: Zurich, Switzerland

Registered: 2006-07-18

Posts: 161

multiuser-pc: can't login anymore

My family pc has two arch installs: one for the entire family (kde) and one for myself (openbox) to play around. I have this setup to be able to play around with my system and not breaking the family install should something go wrong. Both installs use the same partition for /home.

All of a sudden we can't login to our family-install anymore as normal user: unable to cd '/home/<username>'. I have checked the permissions, they seem to be ok, even though the logs say something different.  I can login as root only. I also installed kde again to no avail. The home partiton is correctly mounted.

/var/log/errors.log

Dec  6 18:57:28 torresuiza kdm: :0 '[2817]: Cannot create authorization file in /tmp
Dec  6 18:57:28 torresuiza kdm: :0 '[2817]: Cannot chdir to claudia's home /home/claudia: Permission denied

My personal openbox-install works fine! I'm a bit lost here :-(

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string

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Registered: 2008-11-03

Posts: 286

Re: multiuser-pc: can't login anymore

WHat do: `ls -ald /tmp`; `ls -al /home` and `df -h` say?

Last edited by string (2008-12-06 19:56:47)

chilebiker

Member

From: Zurich, Switzerland

Registered: 2006-07-18

Posts: 161

Re: multiuser-pc: can't login anymore

I got fed up with the issue and did a fresh install...

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sand_man

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 2,164

Re: multiuser-pc: can't login anymore

lol but you didn't even let anyone help you! Could have saved you the effort of reinstalling

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