FC1 moving home directory location stalls gnome login?
Jonathan Rawle
jr36 at leicester.ac.uk
Thu Jun 3 09:08:54 UTC 2004
w fm3 wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am trying to move the location of a number of home directories for
> example /home/username to /home2/username
>
> I do this and change the passwd file and i get a severe stall (about
> 10mins)
> after login - "Loading metacity window manager" takes a good few minutes.
>
> If i move things back the way they were it all works fine.
>
> Anyone know what the problem might be?
>
/home/username must be hard-coded into a configuration file somewhere. You
could try a grep search in the .gnome2 directory.
As a (temporary?) solution, you could create symbolic links pointing from
/home/username to /home2/username
Jonathan
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