<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> From Vol 46, Issue 344, Message 8: <pre wrap=""><div class="moz-txt-sig">Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:49:36 +0000 (UTC) From: Aart Koelewijn <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:aart@mtack.xs4all.nl"><aart@mtack.xs4all.nl></a> Subject: Re: re: problem moving a user's home directory to a new location -- more -- 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:g3o650$nps$2@ger.gmane.org"><g3o650$nps$2@ger.gmane.org></a> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:09:57 -0500, Jay Ridgley wrote: </div></pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">> I wrote: > </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">>>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, </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">> </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">>>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> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">> 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@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> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> > 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. > ><div class="moz-txt-sig">> -- > 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 <pre wrap="">-- 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> </div></pre> </body> </html>