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Nu-Bee_4VR
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EDIT/UPDATE: I am working through the suggestions below, and till I figure out exactly what is happening I'll just make sure I have HOME set before I emerge anything. Thanks to everyone for their suggestions....
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I keep getting this on many programs...how do I set $HOME ?
| Quote: | root@tux joseph # kcmshell k3bsetup2
Aborting. $HOME is not set. |
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hifi
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| Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2004 2:02 pm Post subject: Re: I am getting tired of seeing this.... |
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| Nu-Bee_4VR wrote: | I keep getting this on many programs...how do I set $HOME ?
| Quote: | root@tux joseph # kcmshell k3bsetup2
Aborting. $HOME is not set. |
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strange
or somethin like that ....
but there seems to be something else wrong, because home should be set automatically |
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Nu-Bee_4VR
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| Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2004 2:08 pm Post subject: Re: I am getting tired of seeing this.... |
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| hifi wrote: | | Nu-Bee_4VR wrote: | I keep getting this on many programs...how do I set $HOME ?
| Quote: | root@tux joseph # kcmshell k3bsetup2
Aborting. $HOME is not set. |
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strange
or somethin like that ....
but there seems to be something else wrong, because home should be set automatically |
Yes, if I do it in a session it gets set temporarily, but I can't figure out how to do it permanently...
| Quote: | root@tux joseph # echo $HOME
root@tux joseph # export $HOME HOME=/root
root@tux joseph # echo $HOME
/root
root@tux joseph #
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Think about it...
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vdboor
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| Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2004 2:20 pm Post subject: |
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how did you become root in that console? your $HOME should be set already 
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Nu-Bee_4VR
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| Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2004 2:39 pm Post subject: |
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| vdboor wrote: | | how did you become root in that console? your $HOME should be set already |
I invoked the Konsole to open a new Root Midnight Commander...basically it's:
I never have this problem in my other distro...so I must have to set it somewhere.
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cgunter
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| Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2004 8:51 pm Post subject: |
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Try running
root@gunters root # usermod -d /root root
This should set the home directory. once this is done log out and back in and run
root@gunters root # echo $HOME
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Nu-Bee_4VR
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| Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2004 11:57 pm Post subject: |
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| cgunter wrote: | Try running
root@gunters root # usermod -d /root root
This should set the home directory. once this is done log out and back in and run
root@gunters root # echo $HOME
/root |
Nope, that didn't do it.
...I had to set it again.
I have a feeling it has to do with a permission problem; this is why I need to find out exactly which file I need to examine.
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lurid
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You've got a problem some where (obviously) so doing this might not be the best solution, but if you were to append 'export HOME=/root' to /root/.bashrc then every time you open a terminal (or su) it'll get set. You shouldn't have to do that though. Maybe try that as a quick temporary fix.
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Nu-Bee_4VR
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| Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2004 1:59 am Post subject: |
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| lurid wrote: | | You've got a problem some where (obviously) so doing this might not be the best solution, but if you were to append 'export HOME=/root' to /root/.bashrc then every time you open a terminal (or su) it'll get set. You shouldn't have to do that though. Maybe try that as a quick temporary fix. |
That is what I have resprted to...
I guess that somewhere in time I'll find the right fix for this.
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| what happens if you open an xterm and then execute 'su -' ? |
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