Sounds like you don't have write permission to the joe home directory.
The graphical environments need to be able to write to log in, while the
terminals don't.
My guess is that your login User ID and Group ID from your old home
directory didn't line up with the new install, or your drive is mounted
read only.
I would login as joe to an console via ctrl+alt+f1 and then do:
sudo chown -R joe.joe /home/joe
That should fix you right up.
Brian Cluff
On 01/05/2013 05:05 PM,
joe@actionline.com wrote:
> Just installed Kubuntu 12.10 again (now on my 4th installation attempt
> today) and still can't get it to work.
>
> This time, I used the "manual" install procedure to install only the root
> (/) partition since I already have /home installed on /dev/sda6 with all
> my files.
>
> But now I cannot access that /home partition. I'm stuck in a tmp/guest
> directory and I can neither change user to /home/joe nor can I use: 'sudo
> passwd root' because all attempts say "Operation not permitted"
>
> $ df
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1 12396968 3571428 8195796 31% /
> udev 469488 4 469484 1% /dev
> tmpfs 192240 784 191456 1% /run
> none 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock
> none 480592 84 480508 1% /run/shm
> none 102400 12 102388 1% /run/user
> /dev/sda6 175869792 23265668 152604124 14% /home
> none 480592 9512 471080 2% /tmp/guest-3sbRVN
>
> I am able to view /home/joe to confirm that all my files are there by
> going to CTRL+ALT+F1 and logging in as 'joe' ... and in the F1 terminal I
> can also use 'sudu passwd root' to reset the root password. But then when
> I go back to the KDE graphical desktop (F7) and open a terminal, I still
> cannot get into the /home directory or su to root.
>
> $ cat fstab shows this:
>
> # / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
> UUID=962718a7-f399-4173-8260-1d5c0249a8d3 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
> # /home was on /dev/sda6 during installation
> UUID=5eb2a784-c640-4962-8a81-6f81a0ccca85 /home ext4 defaults 0 2
> # swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
> UUID=c0c7f1be-ff0f-4f18-a86d-a98bd91d0e62 none swap sw 0 0
>
>
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