On Wed, 2016-11-23 at 14:46 +0000, jharbold@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Yes,after logging in as root, using a terminal, I can login to my home directory. Being unable to login as yourself to the graphical user interface (GUI), but able to login to the command line interface, and root being able to log in to the GUI sounds exactly like an old problem I've come across: The permissions for the /tmp directory may be wrong. If they are, the GUI can't create the files it wants to, in there, as it tries to start up. If I type this command: ls -ld /tmp I get this result, for a normal /tmp directory: drwxrwxrwt. 19 root root 12288 Nov 24 07:09 /tmp/ Note that all users (owner, group, and others) have read, write, and execute permissions, and that the other user has the sticky bit set (the final "t" in the permissions flags. And it's owned by root:root, the rest of the details are unimportant. This can happen if you bodge things up while working on the /tmp directory, itself, or fail to mount /tmp onto a tmp directory in the root (and the directory has different permissions), etc. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the mailing list. Windows, it's enough to make a grown man cry! _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
