problem moving a user's home directory to a new location -- more --

[Jay Ridgley]

I wrote:

>Message: 9
>Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:47:22 -0500
>From: Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com>
>Subject: re: problem moving a user's home directory to a new location
>To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>Message-ID: <485EC86A.3080700 at austin.rr.com>
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>
>Folks,

>After doing the things Smoot(THANKS!) suggested, I have discovered that 
>it appears everything is fine EXCEPT the initial terminal window has 
>/home/user as part of the prompt. Where is that coming from? I have 
>been 
>unable to find it... I can do a cd<enter> and that part of the prompt 
>disappears. and pwd shows /home2/user.
>
>If I pop up a new terminal (using the panel button) it points to the 
>proper place and does not have the  /home/user displayed.
>
>I apologize that I am unable to include the discussion thread but it was
>
>lost while I was in the process of switching things around.
>
>I am going to continue using /home2/user as the home directory, since 
>that is where I want it to be and everything appears to be working with 
>the exception of the item noted above... weird...
>
>I am not going to delete the old home directory until I know for 
>sure that things are fixed.
>
>Cheers,
>Jay
>
>

I have been trying to figure out what is going on...

If I login from a tty terminal (using ctrl-alt-F1) every thing is fine, 
it appears that it is ONLY with the GUI interface (GNOME).

I did find a file named .gtkrc-1.2-gnome2 that contained the following:

# Autowritten by gnome-settings-daemon. Do not edit

include "/home/jay/.gtkrc.mine"
<eof>

I moved it to old.gtkrc-1.2-gnome2 and tried once again to login --- NO 
CHANGE and the file was not rewritten... In addition the referenced file 
does not exist in either directory.

I can not find ANYWHERE that a pointer to /home/jay is set. However, 
when I boot the system and initially login or if I logout and log back 
in as user the initial terminal window that is launched is pointing to 
/home/jay for the pwd. Now the weird part if I enter the cd command it 
changes to /home2/jay. NOTE: I entered nothing other than the characters 
cd & pressed enter!
I am including a copy of the screen:

jay at polar:/home/jay$ pwd
/home/jay
jay at polar:/home/jay$ cd
jay at polar:~$ pwd
/home2/jay

ALL subsequent terminal windows I launch point to /home2/jay. All of the 
data and other information is available from the directory /home2/jay 
without any problems.

ANY AND ALL SUGGESTIONS,  please...

-- 


Jay Ridgley
jridgley2 at austin.rr.com
Registered Linux User ID - 9115

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