Ubuntu 12.10 beta 2 upgrade - login issue, moved /home

Can you give the output of:

ls -la ~/.ICEauthority
ls -la ~/.Xauthority

Thanks

Yep!

all commands return me the following strings:
ls: impossible to access to //.ICEauthority: File or directory not exists
ls: impossible to access to //.Xauthority: File or directory not exists

and the same is when I run commands on root@ using "sudo -i"

Did you run the commands I gave in a terminal?

Yep,

I run your commands on TTY1 (ctrl + alt + f1)

Funny because if I use ls -la on a file that doesn't exist, I get this:

andy@D420:~$ ls -la ~/.ICEauthorityp
ls: cannot access /home/andy/.ICEauthorityp: No such file or directory

So you must ave typed it wrong.....

What is the output of:

cat /etc/lsb-release; uname -a

Thanks

Yep, I'm translating from Italian distribution to english so is not a perfect translation.

Your last command return me :

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=12.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=quantal
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu quantal (development branch)"
Linux mymachinename 3.5.0-16-generic #25-Ubuntu SMP Fri Sep 28 22:31:15 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/linux

Try:

touch

touch ~/.ICEauthority

Then retry your commands

ok! I tried to do the touch command.

If i use it on dave@ i got "permission denied":

touch: impossible do touch of "//.ICEauthority": Permission denied

If i use it on root@

root@mymachinename:~# touch ~/.ICEauthority
root@mymachinename:~# ls -la ~/.ICEauthority
ls: cannot access to /root/.ICEauthority: No such file or directory
root@mymachinename:~# ls -la .ICEauthority
ls: cannot access to .ICEauthority: No such file or directory

why are you root? You need to run this stuff as your user. This is all probably caused by you messing around a root, rather than using sudo as the OS is designed

I never used root until today, when i learnt the command sudo -i

As already done, if i write touch as you said:

dave@mymachinename:~# touch ~/.ICEauthority
touch: impossible do touch of "//.ICEauthority": Permission denied

then run:

exit

and use YOUR user, you'll have fewer issues.

I already done, I've rebooted the system and logged in TTY1 with my account (dave):

this is the result of touch command

dave@mymachinename:~# touch ~/.ICEauthority
touch: impossible do touch of "//.ICEauthority": Permission denied

Then run:

sudo chown -R dave:dave /home/dave

And it will help, you'll get a warning but it's ok

Ok, done.

dave@mymachinename:~# sudo chown -R dave:dave /home/dave
chown: cannot access to "/home/dave": No such file or directory

I rebooted another time and seems not working, when I write my password on lightDM return into lightDM

note: i read in TTY1 on the last line of the login header:
Ubuntu come with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by applicable law.

No directory, logging in with HOME=/

You haven't changed user as the prompt is still # so you are simply changing the word 'root' to 'dave'. This isn't even a user in your system which further concretes my idea.

you are right, the symbol between the command line and / is a dollar $, I'm sorry but I copied the lines of the old post to write faster

Can you give the results of these 2 commands ?

sudo blkid

cat /etc/fstab

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yep!

sudo blkid

/dev/sda1: UUID="da264fd1-fda8-461b-8ee7-bfd06ae31081" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda5: UUID="02c946c1-899d-47c8-960a-bcb2624fc69d" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="Volume" UUID="FC5EDA425ED9F57C" TYPE="ntfs"

and cat/etc/fstab

(not commented lines)
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=da264fd1-fda8-471b-8ee7-bfd06ae31081 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
#swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=02c946c1-899d-47c8-960a-bcb2624fc69d none swap sw 0 0

* andrew woodhead

If you don't believe what i said:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/729364/IMG_20121001_161850.jpg
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/729364/IMG_20121001_161926.jpg

Thank you very much!! you saved my pc!!

your rsync works well

Thanks NikTh, that solved my question.