Reinstall made /home/<olduser> as unrecognised

[rohitsz]

Greetings there,

 

I had a hard disk snag that made mandriva 2007.0 crash!

So i reinstalled 2007.0 and rewrote / and /usr the /home partition was left untouched.

So post install, when i try to login using the old existing users on /home/<username>, i get a login fail screen.

 

The /home directory is exixsting there, is there a way to map the old users and their sruff to the new install somehow? :unsure:

 

thanks,

rohit.

[arctic]

Press ctrl+alt+F1 in order to get to a command line. Once there, log in as root. Then type

 

chown -R username:username /home/username*

 

*=replace "username" with your actual username, e.g. "bob".

 

Once you have done that, log out, press ctrl+alt+F7 and try to log in again as normal user.

[neddie]

Does the user even exist any more after the complete reinstall? Have you checked the file /etc/passwd to see if entries exist for the previous user(s)?

[ianw1974]

If the user doesn't exist, add with:

 

useradd -M username

 

it won't create the home directory, but then you can reset the privileges like arctic mentioned. If you're sure you've got it:

 

cat /etc/passwd | grep username

 

and if it comes back with no results, then that user didn't get added during install.

[rohitsz]

Greetings there,

Thanks to all for helping me in getting back all my previous usenames! :-)

 

But there is jus one problem, my most used login is facing the following problem when i try to log into it..

 

xterm: Can't execvp /usr/X11R6/bin/luit: No such file or directory

xterm: cannot support your locale

[username@localhost]$

 

I am left with no choice to do a CONTROL+D! :mellow:

 

So what should i do further...

 

<edit>

So when i got that on a console, i did

[username@localhost]$startkde &

 

After that when i try to close the console, kde also closes and i am taken back to the login screen.

</edit>

 

 

thanks,

rohit.

Edited February 24, 2007 by rohitsz