cannot login to home directory. using /.
 

Hello I hope someone can help me I am runnung Mandriva Free 2010.2 on a Inspiron 1525 laptop with a dual boot with Windows Vista. I was using my windows partition and when I rebooted to Mandriva I now get these errors.

1. Cannot enter home Directory. Using /.
2. when I click ok I get the following message.
Kstartupconfig4 does not exist or fails. The error code is 3 check your installation.

Note I can boot to the xguest account ok. I have tried to boot with a different shell by logging into the xguest account and changing the shell using MCC. I have tried updating the OS with my Mandriva 2010.2 disc and still cannot get it to boot to my user. Thanks for any help.
rbixler1957

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Thanks repo I have never used sudo I normally login to the root account using su in a terminal. also when you talk about using username do you mean using my users name or entering username into the terminal. I will have to reboot to Mandriva and login with the xguest account to try this because I am using my Windows partition to get here.
Thanks

As root is ok.
Replace "username" with the actual name of the user owning the home directory.

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Thanks I will try that.

Ok I have rebooted to the Mandriva xguest account logged in to su on the terminal and tried that and I get /home/my username/.kde does not exist yet when I go to MCC manage user accounts my user account is there.

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I tried entering it both ways and when I used /home/my username/.kde4 i still get no file or directory and when I used /home/my username/ I get chown missing operand after /home/my username/. What I do not understand is what happened my user account worked fine and all I did was use my windows partition to test a website design with windows.

Please post the command and output you are using.

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the command I enter is chown -R robin.robin /home/robin/.kde I get chown: cannot access `/home/robin/.kde': No such file or directory

When I try chown -R robin.robin /home/robin/.kde4 I get chown: cannot access `/home/robin/.kde4': No such file or directory

When I try chown -R robin.robin /home/robin/ I get chown: missing operand after `/home/robin/'
Try `chown --help' for more information.

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Repo when I tried that i get [root@localhost xguest]# chown -R robin.robin /home/robin/*
chown: cannot access `/home/robin/*': No such file or directory

Please post the output from
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When I tried that it only shows xguest
It looks like my users home has been deleted or moved

Is your home directory on a separate partition, and if yes is that partition mounted?
You could try to recreate the user.

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