SOLVED - Changed my user account name and now can't log in

[Maurice]

When I now try to login I get the following messages ...

A critical error occurred

Cannot enter home directory using /

Check kdm logs

Kstartupconfig4 does not exist or fails. The error code is 3 Check

During these messages I get the login screen and when I complete this I get into the original Minime and not the one I have set up and configured.

I tried changing my user name but failed so I deleted it and entered another one.

Any help would be much appreciated

Maurice.

[Just18]

Sounds like   /home  has become detached from the OS.

Log in as described above (using the root account settings) and check whether  /home  is mounted or not.

Also check out the user names and IDs through PCC.

[Maurice]

Sounds like   /home  has become detached from the OS.

Log in as described above (using the root account settings) and check whether  /home  is mounted or not.

Also check out the user names and IDs through PCC.

Checked user names and they seem to be OK. Don't know how to check whether /home is mounted or not.

I checked the logs and found this in syslog

Dec 11 07:23:24 localhost userdrake[3658]: copied recursively /usr/share/mdk/faces/fish.png to /usr/share/mdk/faces/maurice.face.icon
Dec 11 07:23:52 localhost userdrake[3658]: copied recursively /usr/share/mdk/faces/lightning.png to /usr/share/mdk/faces/maurice.face.icon
Dec 11 08:52:48 localhost kdm: :0 '[2542]: Cannot update authorization file in home dir /home/maurice
Dec 11 08:52:48 localhost kdm: :0 '[2542]: Cannot chdir to maurice's home /home/maurice: No such file or directory
Dec 11 08:54:24 localhost kdm: :0[2655]: Cannot update authorization file in home dir /home/maurice
Dec 11 08:55:10 localhost kdm: :0 '[2695]: Cannot update authorization file in home dir /home/maurice
Dec 11 08:55:10 localhost kdm: :0 '[2695]: Cannot chdir to maurice's home /home/maurice: No such file or directory
Dec 11 08:55:51 localhost kdm: :0[2808]: Cannot update authorization file in home dir /home/maurice
Dec 11 08:58:30 localhost userdrake[3171]: copied recursively /usr/share/mdk/faces/sunset.png to /usr/share/mdk/faces/maurice.face.icon
Dec 11 09:01:01 localhost userdrake[3171]: Creating new group: maurice
Dec 11 09:01:01 localhost userdrake[3171]: Adding user: maurice
Dec 11 09:01:01 localhost userdrake[3171]: copied recursively /usr/share/mdk/faces/leaf.png to /usr/share/mdk/faces/maurice.face.icon
Dec 11 09:01:01 localhost userdrake[3171]: launched command: usermod -a -G audio,video,lp,cdrom,cdwriter,dialout,floppy,users,polkituser maurice

Does this help?

[djohnston]

Checked user names and they seem to be OK. Don't know how to check whether /home is mounted or not.

Issue the mount command to see what partitions are mounted. Also, check all users again. See what directory is listed as maurice's home directory.

Dec 11 08:52:48 localhost kdm: :0 '[2542]: Cannot chdir to maurice's home /home/maurice: No such file or directory

It appears that your original home directory, /home/maurice has gone missing. While you're logged in, do:

ls -l /home/

Post the output.

[Maurice]

Checked user names and they seem to be OK. Don't know how to check whether /home is mounted or not.

Issue the mount command to see what partitions are mounted. Also, check all users again. See what directory is listed as maurice's home directory.

Dec 11 08:52:48 localhost kdm: :0 '[2542]: Cannot chdir to maurice's home /home/maurice: No such file or directory

It appears that your original home directory, /home/maurice has gone missing. While you're logged in, do:

ls -l /home/

Post the output.

[root@localhost ~]# mount
/dev/sda2 on / type ext4 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)


[root@localhost ~]# ls -l /home
total 8
drwx------ 24 maurice maurice 4096 Dec 11 09:04 maurice/
drwxr-xr-x  2 root    root    4096 Jun  9  2011 mysql/
[root@localhost ~]#

[Maurice]

I'm a bit tired of these problems and have reinstalled once again.  So - Solved.

Thanks for the help.   Maurice