Gnome-terminal starts at /

[MuadNu]

I just installed F11 on my laptop, using a preexisting /home partition. Now when I log in everything works ok, but gnome-terminal starts at / instead of my home folder. If I type "cd" I do get to my folder.

I'm not sure what's going on. I used my home temporarily for an Ubuntu install while I was figuring out how to install F11 on my laptop. User and group ids are ok. And I remember, I think on my first or second boot, seeing a message somewhere that my home folder didn't exist (though it definitely does!).

[CSchwangler]

What home directory do you have in /etc/passwd (must be root)?

[MuadNu]

Seems to be the right one:

username:x:1000:1000:My Name:/home/username:/bin/bash

By the way, the issue is (as I expected) not particular to gnome-terminal. For example, if I make a shortcut in my desktop executing some script that I have in my home directory but don't use the full path, it doesn't find it.

[mrbrown79]

I'm using Fedora11.

Earlier today I removed my /home directory to a new partition with a procedure close to this one:
(as root on runlevel 1)

mkdir /newpart
mount /dev/sda4 /newpart
cd /home
cp -ax * /newpart
mv /home /home.old
mkdir /home
umount /newpart
mount /dev/sda4 /home

And added a line to /etc/fstab:

/dev/sda4 /home ext4 defaults 1 3

Later on (for other reasons) I changed UID of my user. So I changed it in /etc/passwd and /etc/group and recursively changed fileowners and -groups to the new uig/gid.

As a test find / -uid $OLD_UID gives no output at the moment and neither on the GID.

Now, my problem is, that when I start a terminal through GNOME, it starts in the "/" (root) directory. If I type "cd" it changes to the /home/user directory - but why doesn't it start there? May not be the biggest problem in the world, but it is still an indication that something is wrong :S

Don't know if it is relevant, but in /var/log/messages I found the line:

Jan 31 21:12:09 hostname gdm-simple-greeter[3051]: WARNING: Unable to query filesystem type for /home/user: Error getting filesystem info: Permission denied

Any ideas, how I can fix the terminal start directory?

---------- Post added 2010-02-01 at 01:52 AM CST ---------- Previous post was 2010-01-31 at 10:45 PM CST ----------

Well, it seems to be related to some SElinux labelling thing. At least I found the cure in the SElinx troubleshoot browser:
touch /.autorelabel; reboot (as root)

After that command (and reboot) the problem seems to be solved.

[mrbrown79]

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showth...=1#post1324921
Solution suggestion in bottom

[Hlingler]

Threads on identical topic merged. Thanks for posting solution.

V

[jhhaynes]

Thanks, that fixed it for me too. SELinux sure causes a lot of odd problems.