Error during install of 10.1 on USB drive

[MrWhisp]

Hi,

 

I managed to install 10.1 on an external USB drive by using the tips at http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr/review101.html.

 

The installation went without problems, but I cannot start Mdk. Once I try to login to KDE or Gnome I get the error message:

 

The following installation problem was detected while trying to start KDE:
No write access to $HOME directory (/).
KDE is unable to start

 

I have a formatted /home partition, but it does not seem to be in use since the system tries to create the .kde directory at /.

 

Help please!

[pmpatrick]

Post your fstab, the output of:

 

$ mount

 

and:

 

$ cd /

$ ls -l

 

and:

 

$ cd /home

$ ls -l

 

Fstab will tell you if /home should be mounted at boot as there should be an entry for it; mount will tell you if it is mounted as it lists all mounted partitions; and the ls -l commands give you a listing of all dirs and the permissions on them. Your mainly interested in your /home and in your /home/<username> dirs here.

 

Also, if it's a problem with /home, you should be able to log into kde as root since the root users home dir isn't in /home but rather in /root. Give that a try as well. Do that by logging in at the command line and running:

 

:root

<enter root password>

# startx

 

The above info will give some clue as to what the problem is.