/home not recognized after hardware change

[Hondo]

I removed all of the components from one case & moved it to another.

Now when I try to login to my regular user it says that /home is unavailable.

/home was (and still is) installed on a drive separate from /root & swap.

All of the drives are SATA, though I did not make sure that the drives were hooked up to the same connections on the motherboard-

How can I get back into my normal account?

Any help is MOST appreciated!

[Hondo]

Ok, I went back and wrote down the exact error messages.

1st, I get this -

"Cannot enter home directory. Using /."

When I click "OK", another box opens that says-

"kstartupconfig4 does not exist or fails. The error code is 3. Check your installation."

Does that mean that the /home drive should be connected to SATA 4 on my mobo?

I'm gonna shut down & see what's what in there.

[Hondo]

Another thing- I can login as root (I'm there now).

Thanks.

[Hondo]

I switched around the SATA cables with no changes.

I also researched the error message and tried in terminal-

"chown -R username.username /home/username/.kde" to no avail.

[Rudge]

Hondo, have you changed nothing but the case? Nothing else changed?

Same MB.. everything?

[Hondo]

The only thing I changed was the case and I added another hard drive for storage.

[Hondo]

Ok, I read about creating another user to see if it's a system wide issue- the new user is fine.

But of course I can't access any of my apps from the other user including all of my Crossover apps & email info.

So any help getting the config correct would be great.

[Rudge]

Ok, I read about creating another user to see if it's a system wide issue- the new user is fine.

But of course I can't access any of my apps from the other user including all of my Crossover apps & email info.

So any help getting the config correct would be great.

Well the new user would have his own /home directory. Can you access the data from the original user's /home directory? If not, you haven't solved anything.

[Rudge]

Do you know how to tell if the second drive is being mounted?

Open a Konsole and enter "mount" (no quotes) and paste the results.

[Hondo]

Yes I can access the /home as I installed it on a seperate drive from /root.

I just read a recommendation to reinstall from MtLiveCD that I made and he said that the previous setting & such should be there when the OS installs - sound good?

[Hondo]

/dev/sda1 on / type ext2 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
none on /tmp type tmpfs (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /root/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev)
/dev/sdb3 on /media/%WD-Backup type ext2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal)
/dev/sdb1 on /media/%home type ext2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal)

[Hondo]

sda is root

sdb is where 3 partitions are including /home

[Rudge]

/dev/sda1 on / type ext2 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
none on /tmp type tmpfs (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /root/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev)
/dev/sdb3 on /media/%WD-Backup type ext2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal)
/dev/sdb1 on /media/%home type ext2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal)

Your system is WAY over due for an "overhaul".

What ISO did you originally use for an install and when was it last updated?
 

[Hondo]

I used the latest iso about a few months ago, all updates applied, and a MyLiveCD made. I had to install from that due to another crash.

What needs to be changed? The file system you highlighted?

Also, any help just getting back into my normal user?

[Rudge]

I used the latest iso about a few months ago, all updates applied, and a MyLiveCD made. I had to install from that due to another crash.

What needs to be changed? The file system you highlighted?

Also, any help just getting back into my normal user?

You have "perplexed" me. 

You say that you installed from a recent .ISO and yet you appear to be using ext2.

Perhaps I am not as smart as I appear to myself. 

Even more importantly, I don't know now if it has anything to do with your problem so,, good luck.