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romalong
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 Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 9:06 am Post subject: $HOME variable[solved] |
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Where may i find $HOME variable?
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lnxz
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| Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 9:10 am Post subject: |
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| echo $HOME ? |
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katsiki
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| Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 9:41 am Post subject: |
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You can see all your environment variables using,
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romalong
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| Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 9:49 am Post subject: Ti... |
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| katsiki wrote: | You can see all your environment variables using,
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the reason why i'd like to know about this $HOME variable is because i'm heaving KDE error that says that $HOME is not set |
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lnxz
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| Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 9:54 am Post subject: |
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| maybe put something like "export HOME=/home/username" in ~/.bashrc ? |
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katsiki
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| Quote: | | maybe put something like "export HOME=/home/username" in ~/.bashrc ? |
or in the .xinitrc, to be available before KDE starts. |
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lnxz
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| Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 10:09 am Post subject: |
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| If you use startx, like I do, .bashrc will be sourced first, but since this is for X anyways you're right about .xinitrc being the appropriate place to put that. |
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romalong
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| Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 10:18 am Post subject: ... |
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| lnxz wrote: | | If you use startx, like I do, .bashrc will be sourced first, but since this is for X anyways you're right about .xinitrc being the appropriate place to put that. |
could this error occur due to X-server wasn't configured yet?
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lnxz
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Does X start at all? If it does it should output warnings, errors and other information in the console you started startx from (if you're using startx).
I've never had X complain about $HOME not being set even when I haven't touched a single line in the example config file, and as far as I know xorg.conf doesn't mention $HOME.
Try using openbox or blackbox instead of KDE and drop all login managers (startx instead).
Running something like this should do the trick:
| Code: | | XSESSION="<your choice of wm here>" startx |
If this works, without it complaining about the $HOME variable, then you can be pretty sure it's a kde problem.
Also try scouting for all other X-related logs. |
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romalong
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| Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 11:16 am Post subject: |
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also it reports that it hasn't access to /home.
PS my /home is on separate drive and if use # mount, i can see this partition... |
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lnxz
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| Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 11:20 am Post subject: |
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| Could you post the entry for /home in /etc/fstab? |
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romalong
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| Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 11:43 am Post subject: |
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| lnxz wrote: | | Could you post the entry for /home in /etc/fstab? |
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/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults,noatime 1 2
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda3 / ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/sdb3 /home ext3 noatime,nodev,nosuid 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0
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lnxz
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Hm. I'm quite sure the problem is with the mounting of the /home partition, but I fail to see anything very wrong in the entry.
Perhaps remove "nodev" and "nosuid" from the mount options, and add "users"?
Because if I'm not very wrong, and I might be, I think unless you pass the "users" parameter or specify uid or mode, all partitions will be mounted owned as root, thus making all files on the partition root's property unless changed by root.
Are you able to create, delete, move or copy files on the partition? |
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romalong
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| Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 12:35 pm Post subject: |
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| lnxz wrote: | | Are you able to create, delete, move or copy files on the partition? |
i can do anything i want with my box |
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lnxz
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I understand, and so can I, but if KDE can't write to or find $HOME it seems a little odd that you've never run into permission problems. Have you tried mounting with the "users" option set?
You could try to remove the kde folders, if any, in your $HOME and see if kde manages to create new ones. Don't see how it could, though. |
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romalong
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| Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 12:57 pm Post subject: |
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could this be the reason?
i've created the user under root on livecd and /home directory was on sda3 like by default (because i forgot to mount it).
then, when i logged in via kde, it couldn't see this user as the system uses fstab file mounting /home to sdb3 and in this case /home is empty... |
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lnxz
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| Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 1:22 pm Post subject: |
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You made a user account during installing, no?
If not you should do "useradd -m -G wheel,tty,users etc.. <username>
If you already got the account set up, just create the user's folder in /home manually and chown -R <youruser>:<yourgroup>.
One thing you could try is unmounting /home, because when you created the folder during install you created it on the root partition and when you rebooted fstab mounted /dev/sda3 ontop of the already created folder. If the folder should turn up when you umount /dev/sda3, copy the folder with cp -R, mount /dev/sda3 back onto /home and move the copied directory to home and make sure the permissions are correct. |
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romalong
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| Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 1:27 pm Post subject: |
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| lnxz wrote: | You made a user account during installing, no?
If not you should do "useradd -m -G wheel,tty,users etc.. <username>
If you already got the account set up, just create the user's folder in /home manually and chown -R <youruser>:<yourgroup>. |
yes, i've created user during install in default /home and when i boot my real gentoo it couldn't see this user in new /home thus it's mounted on another partition. |
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lnxz
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| Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 1:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Does anything happen when you unmount /dev/sda3? |
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romalong
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| Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 1:40 pm Post subject: |
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| lnxz wrote: | | Does anything happen when you unmount /dev/sda3? |
no, just unmounting 
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romalong
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| Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 1:43 pm Post subject: |
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just one note:
when i boot from livecd and mount my partitions i can see all of them by # mount command.
but then, when i # chroot i couldn't and i have to mount my sdb3's /home with # mount /home.
and if'd not do it /home will be that obsolete one with that user i've created before |
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lnxz
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I'm sorry, I don't understand the problem. Delete and recreate the user with /home mounted properly, no biggie.
If you for some reason can't do that, then I don't have the faintest idea what you would have to do to fix this. |
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| Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 2:17 pm Post subject: |
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| lnxz wrote: | | If you for some reason can't do that, then I don't have the faintest idea what you would have to do to fix this. |
umount the home partition, mount it somewhere else (eg /mnt/home).
| Code: | cp -a /home/* /mnt/home/
umount /mnt/home
mount /home |
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romalong
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| BlackEdder wrote: | | lnxz wrote: | | If you for some reason can't do that, then I don't have the faintest idea what you would have to do to fix this. |
umount the home partition, mount it somewhere else (eg /mnt/home).
| Code: | cp -a /home/* /mnt/home/
umount /mnt/home
mount /home |
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why do i need to use /mnt/home if both of my /home are in /? the only difference between them is partition location |
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BlackEdder
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| Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 2:37 pm Post subject: |
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Because your /home partition is now mounted over your user directories, to be able to access your user directories you will need to umount the disk mounted at /home now. Then you will want to copy those user directories to your /home partition, so you will have to mount the home partition somewhere else.
Another solution would be ofcourse:
| Code: | umount /home
mkdir -p /tmp/home
cp -a /home/* /tmp/home/
mount /home
cp -a /tmp/home/* /home/
rm -rf /tmp/home |
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