Something went wrong...

[Nils Kassube]

On 18.07.24 Bas G. Roufs wrote:
> Apparently, something went wrong...
> 
> On one hand, I followed the steps you propose....
> 
> «(...)
> After renaming (sda3)/home to home-ori you should also make a new (empty)
> folder (sda3)/home because that one is needed as the mount point.
> (...)»
> 
> I did.
> 
> Then you should not rename that (sda5)/home-new but move the contents from
> (sda5)/home to (sda5)/ So e.g. (sda5)/home-new/bas should be moved upwards
> > > to become (sda5)/bas
> (....)
> 
> I could not find anymore home-new. However. I DID copy bas and all
> subfolders from sda3 to sda5/bas.

Was that before replacing /etc/fstab with the new version? Maybe sda5 was not mounted to the expected place. You can check it with the command

mount | grep /dev/sda

> However, whenever I try to access the system, I do not manage. I get stuck
> after. the password. Changing the password in emergency mofe does not help.

That was after replacing /etc/fstab with the new version? The password shouldn't be the problem because it was working before. I'd rather think it is a problem of permissions or missing /home/bas folder. When you are in emergency mode you should first check that the partitions are mounted correctly with the mount command above, i.e. sda3 mounted at / and sda5 mounted at /home. If that isn't OK, you could check the file /var/log/syslog for mounting errors.

Then you can check that /home/bas exists and the permissions are OK with the command

ls -la /home

and the output should look like this:

drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4096 Dec 26  2023 .
drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 4096 Jul 14 08:43 ..
drwxr-x--- 56 bas  bas  4096 Jul 18 08:03 bas
^^^^^^^^^^    ^^^^^^^^^                   ^^^  only these parts are important here.

With the command

ls -lA /home/bas

you could check that the files and folders in your $HOME are owned by bas. If the permissions are wrong you could change it with the command

chown -R bas:bas /home/bas

but I suppose your /home/bas is missing.


Nils