On 06/11/2015 08:28 AM, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Kay Schenk wrote: >> On 06/10/2015 10:06 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: >>> On 06/10/2015 05:25 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: >>>> I get /home/<username> not found when it's there and >>>> setup with correct permissions -- well here I am using it >>>> in run level 5 just fine! >>> > <SNIP> >>> The file "startx.trace" will have a list of all of the >>> commands run, and all of their output (including errors). >>> >>> /var/log/X* might be interesting as well. >> >> OK, this last bit sounds promising although this works as expected for >> root -- starts up gnome flawlessly. My previous setup imported settings >> to use a display manager, etc. So, I need to check on this. >> >> Right now, one of my main concerns is that my old /home >> partition/direction is supposedly associated WITH current users I setup >> and yet...NOT! The system does not recognize this association even >> though it asked me about setting it up when I created my first real user >> on installation. I had to go in and reset uids but that's no biggie and >> this process has worked fine before. I can't help but think this is >> related to the startx issue. > > I missed parts of this thread: are any of them mounted NFS? From root, su > - user, and then do ls -laF, and check the ownership and group, > *including* of ./ (the current directory). > > I mention NFS because of issues we've been having here, but we're > connected to AD, and I need to fix /etc/idmapd.conf to have our domain. > > mark Thanks for everyone's help. It seems the not locating /home for users was related to startx problem. The /home partition in question had been an old one, ext3, and requested not to format. All that was well. Partition mounted, etc. Unfortunately, I had inadvertently installed selinux (OK, I saw that but didn't' understand the consequences) and this was what was causing my odd non-root user login behavior (couldn't locate /home) AND the startx problems from init 3 level. After talking to an RH admin colleague, all fine now. On to more fun items as I get up to speed on CentOS! :) -- -------------------------------------------- MzK "We can all sleep easy at night knowing that somewhere at any given time, the Foo Fighters are out there fighting Foo." -- David Letterman _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos