Very Computer

Whem I shut my machine down last night after a tweaking seesion with
AnotherLevel every thing was running fine.  This morning when I tried to
login as the user "me" I got the following error:

No directory /home/me!

It flashes on the screen very quickly and returns to the login prompt.
I can still login as root no problem, and the /home/me directory is
still there.  I know that the ! after the directory name is the key, but
I don't know what it means.  I first thought that the directory had been
locked somehow, in the fashion of a lock file.  But those lock files
have the ! in front of the file name (for example !lock in the netscape
directory when netscape is running.)  I did a man search for lock, but
that was not fruitful.  I am at a loss.  I have to repartition this
drive anyway, so I will just backup my scripts and rc's and reinstall,
but I still want to know *WHAT IT MEANS!!!*   Thanks for you help!

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Just an odd suggestion, but what does your /etc/passwd file look like?
For user 'me', what is the home-directory specified there - does it
have this ! at the end of the directory name perhaps?

--TNL

Quote:>It flashes on the screen very quickly and returns to the login prompt.
>I can still login as root no problem, and the /home/me directory is
>still there.  

See above. Do a "ls -la" on / and make sure that it does have
mode 755 .

Michael
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: Whem I shut my machine down last night after a tweaking seesion with
: AnotherLevel every thing was running fine.  This morning when I tried to
: login as the user "me" I got the following error:

: No directory /home/me!

Log in as root and check permissions on / /home and /home/me

Last time when such thing happens to me it was some script which should
process /etc/passwd and put files into each user home directory,
but while I've debugged it screwed up permissions for / (have you ever
thought that / has normal inode, like any other file)
After that only root and user which was last in /etc/passwd could login

: It flashes on the screen very quickly and returns to the login prompt.
: I can still login as root no problem, and the /home/me directory is
: still there.  I know that the ! after the directory name is the key, but
Check your /etc/passwd  if ! was somehow appear there.

: I don't know what it means.  I first thought that the directory had been
: locked somehow, in the fashion of a lock file.  But those lock files
: have the ! in front of the file name (for example !lock in the netscape
: directory when netscape is running.)  I did a man search for lock, but
: that was not fruitful.  I am at a loss.  I have to repartition this
: drive anyway, so I will just backup my scripts and rc's and reinstall,
: but I still want to know *WHAT IT MEANS!!!*   Thanks for you help!

: --
: "The goal of science is to build better mousetraps.
:  The goal of nature is to build better mice."
: --

: http://www.aa.net/~kurtr