<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> I wrote: <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">>Message: 9 >Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:47:22 -0500 >From: Jay Ridgley <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jridgley2@austin.rr.com"><jridgley2@austin.rr.com></a> >Subject: re: problem moving a user's home directory to a new location >To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> >Message-ID: <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:485EC86A.3080700@austin.rr.com"><485EC86A.3080700@austin.rr.com></a> >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 > > </pre> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">I have been trying to figure out what is going on... </pre> 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@polar:/home/jay$ pwd /home/jay jay@polar:/home/jay$ cd jay@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... <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Jay Ridgley <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jridgley2@austin.rr.com">jridgley2@austin.rr.com</a> Registered Linux User ID - 9115 </pre> </body> </html>