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

[Jay Ridgley]

 From Vol 46, Issue 344, Message 8:

Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:49:36 +0000 (UTC) From: Aart Koelewijn 
<aart at mtack.xs4all.nl> Subject: Re: re: problem moving a user's home 
directory to a new location -- more -- To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com 
Message-ID: <g3o650$nps$2 at ger.gmane.org> Content-Type: text/plain; 
charset=UTF-8 On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:09:57 -0500, Jay Ridgley wrote:

> > 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> Content-Type: text/plain;
>> >>charset="iso-8859-1"
>> >>
>> >>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...
>   

> If you do a "$ strace gnome-terminal" you can see which files are read 
> when a gnome-terminal is opened. I suppose it should be something in one 
> of those files.
>
> Good luck figuring it out.
>
>
 > -- > Aart If I run strace it traces the output of a NEW 
gnome-terminal, not the one that was initially opened. Those do NOT have 
a problem. What I need is information about what is happening from the 
time the password is entered on the login screen until the desktop is 
displayed with the initial gnome-terminal on it (that is the ONLY one 
with the problem). BTW Don't use the $ in front of the command as 
indicated by your the quotes. Regards, Jay

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

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