Homeless User?

Greetings,

a problem suddenly crept up I've never been confronted before:
When I try to log in with my user account in GDM, I get a message box telling me my home dir. doesn't exist.
And indeed, switching to the console I find "/home" completely empty, although it's partition is listed in "fstab", which has worked flawlessly so far:

/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_SAMSUNG_HD753LJS13UJ1KQ104897-part5 /********************ext3****** acl,user_xattr********1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_SAMSUNG_HD753LJS13UJ1KQ104897-part6 /home****************ext3****** acl,user_xattr********1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_SAMSUNG_HD753LJS13UJ1KQ104897-part1 /media/win-c******** ntfs-3g****ro,users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=de_DE.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_SAMSUNG_HD753LJS13UJ1KQ104897-part2 /media/win-e******** ntfs-3g****locale=de_DE.UTF-8,uid=1000,umask=0027 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_SAMSUNG_HD753LJS13UJ1KQ104897-part3 swap**************** swap****** defaults**************0 0
proc**************** /proc****************proc****** defaults**************0 0
sysfs****************/sys**************** sysfs******noauto****************0 0
debugfs**************/sys/kernel/debug****debugfs****noauto****************0 0
usbfs****************/proc/bus/usb********usbfs******noauto****************0 0
devpts************** /dev/pts************ devpts**** mode=0620,gid=5****** 0 0
/dev/fd0************ /media/floppy********auto****** noauto,user,sync******0 0

When using "mount -a" as root on the console, I can log in via gdm, however, it tells me ".dmrc" has wrong access rights settings, which is not true. It also tells me that I should be in possession of my home dir., which is also the case.
I see nothing wrong with the home dir. or ".dmrc" or anything. When clicking that message away, I get my desktop and can work without problems.

I haven't done anything regarding mounting and the fstab except for adding a line for my dvd-rw drive, so I have a persistent mount-point for it instead of having every dvd mounted in it's own dir. every time, which I find annoying and completely useless.
That line isn't in the code listed above, because I replaced the edited fstab with it's original again since this problem came up, to no avail.

I started yast on the console and switched an option in the partitioning module back and forth to have the fstab rewritten by the system itself, which also didn't have any effect - however, I got a weird message from yast, telling me that the changes were written into "/etc/cryptotab" - a file I've never heard of before and which doesn't even exist in my "/etc" - I did that again and checked "fstab" after each change and found that yast did write the changes into "fstab". :huh:

The only thing I could think of that might have produced this weird behaviour would be something I might have installed, updated or removed via yast during the last time I was logged in before this. I've just got no idea what that could be. I updated a lot (this is a fairly fresh install), I installed a lot of stuff that looked interesting enough to check out and I removed some stuff (supposedly) not needed. I am used to getting a warning from yast when deleting something vital for system functions, such a warning never came up and there are also no dependency issues whatsoever.

In case these might be relevant, here are my general system specs:
Athlon64X² 4850e, AMD770 chipset, 4GB of RAM, 750GB Samsung SATA2, openSuSE10.3-64.


Thanks for any insight given, I really wouldn't want to reinstall the whole thing anew.

Regards,
-Zalmoxis.

When it is not mounted direct after a boot (can be checked by typeing mount as root), while it should be mounted according to your fstab isn't there any message given during boot.

Try the Esc key for following the boot 'live', or use dmesg afterwards.

"mount" shows that "/dev/sda5" is indeed the only partition mounted at all during boot time. Except for that other stuff, I guess, since "mount -a" tells me that "devpts" is already mounted or busy.

[codebox]Linux version 2.6.22.17-0.1-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.2.1 (SUSE Linux)) #1 SMP 2008/02/10 20:01:04 UTC
Command line: root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_SAMSUNG_HD753LJS13UJ1KQ104897-part5 resume=/dev/sda3 splash=silent
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000cfee0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000cfee0000 - 00000000cfee3000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000cfee3000 - 00000000cfef0000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 00000000cfef0000 - 00000000cff00000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 0000000130000000 (usable)
Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 159) 0 entries of 3200 used
Entering add_active_range(0, 256, 851680) 1 entries of 3200 used
Entering add_active_range(0, 1048576, 1245184) 2 entries of 3200 used
end_pfn_map = 1245184
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP 000F6C70, 0014 (r0 GBT )
ACPI: RSDT CFEE3000, 0038 (r1 GBT GBTUACPI 42302E31 GBTU 1010101)
ACPI: FACP CFEE3040, 0074 (r1 GBT GBTUACPI 42302E31 GBTU 1010101)
ACPI: DSDT CFEE30C0, 4162 (r1 GBT GBTUACPI 1000 MSFT 3000000)
ACPI: FACS CFEE0000, 0040
ACPI: SSDT CFEE7300, 028A (r1 PTLTD POWERNOW 1 LTP 1)
ACPI: HPET CFEE75C0, 0038 (r1 GBT GBTUACPI 42302E31 GBTU 98)
ACPI: MCFG CFEE7600, 003C (r1 GBT GBTUACPI 42302E31 GBTU 1010101)
ACPI: APIC CFEE7240, 0084 (r1 GBT GBTUACPI 42302E31 GBTU 1010101)
Scanning NUMA topology in Northbridge 24
No NUMA configuration found
Faking a node at 0000000000000000-0000000130000000
Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 159) 0 entries of 3200 used
Entering add_active_range(0, 256, 851680) 1 entries of 3200 used
Entering add_active_range(0, 1048576, 1245184) 2 entries of 3200 used
Bootmem setup node 0 0000000000000000-0000000130000000
Zone PFN ranges:
DMA 0 -> 4096
DMA32 4096 -> 1048576
Normal 1048576 -> 1245184
early_node_map[3] active PFN ranges
0: 0 -> 159
0: 256 -> 851680
0: 1048576 -> 1245184
On node 0 totalpages: 1048191
DMA zone: 56 pages used for memmap
DMA zone: 1273 pages reserved
DMA zone: 2670 pages, LIFO batch:0
DMA32 zone: 14280 pages used for memmap
DMA32 zone: 833304 pages, LIFO batch:31
Normal zone: 2688 pages used for memmap
Normal zone: 193920 pages, LIFO batch:31
ATI board detected. Disabling timer routing over 8254.
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x4008
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Processor #0 (Bootup-CPU)
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
Processor #1
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x02] disabled)
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x03] lapic_id[0x03] disabled)
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] dfl dfl lint[0x1])
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] dfl dfl lint[0x1])
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x02] dfl dfl lint[0x1])
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x03] dfl dfl lint[0x1])
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 low level)
ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
Setting APIC routing to flat
ACPI: HPET id: 0x10b9a201 base: 0xfed00000
Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000
swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 00000000000a0000 - 00000000000f0000
swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000
swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 00000000cfee0000 - 00000000cfee3000
swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 00000000cfee3000 - 00000000cfef0000
swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 00000000cfef0000 - 00000000cff00000
swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 00000000cff00000 - 00000000e0000000
swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000
swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 00000000f0000000 - 00000000fec00000
swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000
Allocating PCI resources starting at d0000000 (gap: cff00000:10100000)
SMP: Allowing 4 CPUs, 2 hotplug CPUs
PERCPU: Allocating 50296 bytes of per cpu data
Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 1029894
Kernel command line: root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_SAMSUNG_HD753LJS13UJ1KQ104897-part5 resume=/dev/sda3 splash=silent
bootsplash: silent mode.
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 32768 bytes)
Marking TSC unstable due to TSCs unsynchronized
time.c: Detected 2511.426 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Checking aperture...
CPU 0: aperture @ 4000000 size 32 MB
Aperture too small (32 MB)
No AGP bridge found
Your BIOS doesn't leave a aperture memory hole
Please enable the IOMMU option in the BIOS setup
This costs you 64 MB of RAM
Mapping aperture over 65536 KB of RAM @ 4000000
Memory: 4049292k/4980736k available (2053k kernel code, 143472k reserved, 1017k data, 316k init)
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 5133.91 BogoMIPS (lpj=10267826)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
Dentry cache hash table entries: 524288 (order: 10, 4194304 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 256
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line)
CPU 0/0 -> Node 0
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU: Processor Core ID: 0
SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
Unpacking initramfs... done
Freeing initrd memory: 4281k freed
ACPI: Core revision 20070126
Parsing all Control Methods:
Table [DSDT](id 0001) - 571 Objects with 53 Devices 159 Methods 23 Regions
Parsing all Control Methods:
Table [SSDT](id 0002) - 8 Objects with 0 Devices 0 Methods 0 Regions
tbxface-0587 [00] tb_load_namespace : ACPI Tables successfully acquired
evxfevnt-0091 [00] enable : Transition to ACPI mode successful
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
result 12557126
Detected 12.557 MHz APIC timer.
SMP alternatives: switching to SMP code
Booting processor 1/2 APIC 0x1
Initializing CPU#1
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 5022.91 BogoMIPS (lpj=10045838)
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line)
CPU 1/1 -> Node 0
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU: Processor Core ID: 1
AMD Processor model unknown stepping 02
Brought up 2 CPUs
migration_cost=140
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: Using MMCONFIG at e0000000 - efffffff
PCI: No mmconfig possible on device 00:18
evgpeblk-0956 [00] ev_create_gpe_block : GPE 00 to 1F [_GPE] 4 regs on int 0x9
evgpeblk-1052 [00] ev_initialize_gpe_bloc: Found 4 Wake, Enabled 11 Runtime GPEs in this block
ACPI: EC: Look up EC in DSDT
Completing Region/Field/Buffer/Package initialization:................................... .................
Initialized 14/23 Regions 0/0 Fields 19/19 Buffers 19/26 Packages (588 nodes)
Initializing Device/Processor/Thermal objects by executing _INI methods:..
Executed 2 _INI methods requiring 1 _STA executions (examined 59 objects)
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:14.4
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.P2P_._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK0] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 © Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
ACPI: bus type pnp registered
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 15 devices
ACPI: ACPI bus type pnp unregistered
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
PCI-DMA: Disabling AGP.
PCI-DMA: aperture base @ 4000000 size 65536 KB
PCI-DMA: using GART IOMMU.
PCI-DMA: Reserving 64MB of IOMMU area in the AGP aperture
hpet0: at MMIO 0xfed00000, IRQs 2, 8, 0, 0
hpet0: 4 32-bit timers, 14318180 Hz
ACPI: RTC can wake from S4
pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0x4100-0x411f has been reserved
pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0x228-0x22f has been reserved
Time: hpet clocksource has been installed.
pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0x40b-0x40b has been reserved
pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0x4d6-0x4d6 has been reserved
pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0xc00-0xc01 has been reserved
pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0xc14-0xc14 has been reserved
pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0xc50-0xc52 has been reserved
pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0xc6c-0xc6d has been reserved
pnp: 00:0d: iomem range 0xe0000000-0xefffffff could not be reserved
pnp: 00:0e: iomem range 0xcdc00-0xcffff has been reserved
pnp: 00:0e: iomem range 0xf0000-0xf7fff could not be reserved
pnp: 00:0e: iomem range 0xf8000-0xfbfff could not be reserved
pnp: 00:0e: iomem range 0xfc000-0xfffff could not be reserved
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:02.0
IO window: d000-dfff
MEM window: f8000000-fbffffff
PREFETCH window: d0000000-dfffffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:0a.0
IO window: e000-efff
MEM window: fdf00000-fdffffff
PREFETCH window: fde00000-fdefffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:14.4
IO window: c000-cfff
MEM window: fdd00000-fddfffff
PREFETCH window: fdc00000-fdcfffff
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:02.0 to 64
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:0a.0 to 64
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 524288 (order: 11, 12582912 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 524288 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1211756963.176:1): initialized
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 512 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
PCI: MSI quirk detected. MSI deactivated.
Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:02.0 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:02.0cie00]
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:0a.0 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:0a.0cie00]
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
hpet_resources: 0xfed00000 is busy
Non-volatile memory driver v1.2
Linux agpgart interface v0.102 © Dave Jones
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
00:09: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303S2K,PNP0f13S2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input1
input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse as /class/input/input2
NET: Registered protocol family 1
Freeing unused kernel memory: 316k freed
ACPI Exception (processor_core-0789): AE_NOT_FOUND, Processor Device is not present [20070126]
ACPI Exception (processor_core-0789): AE_NOT_FOUND, Processor Device is not present [20070126]
SCSI subsystem initialized
libata version 3.00 loaded.
ahci 0000:00:12.0: version 3.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:12.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
ahci 0000:00:12.0: controller can't do 64bit DMA, forcing 32bit
ahci 0000:00:12.0: controller can't do PMP, turning off CAP_PMP
ahci 0000:00:12.0: AHCI 0001.0100 32 slots 4 ports 3 Gbps 0xf impl SATA mode
ahci 0000:00:12.0: flags: ncq sntf ilck pm led clo pio slum part
scsi0 : ahci
scsi1 : ahci
scsi2 : ahci
scsi3 : ahci
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xffffc20000630100 ctl 0x0000000000000000 bmdma 0x0000000000000000 irq 22
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xffffc20000630180 ctl 0x0000000000000000 bmdma 0x0000000000000000 irq 22
ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xffffc20000630200 ctl 0x0000000000000000 bmdma 0x0000000000000000 irq 22
ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xffffc20000630280 ctl 0x0000000000000000 bmdma 0x0000000000000000 irq 22
ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
ata3.00: HPA unlocked: 1465147055 -> 1465149168, native 1465149168
ata3.00: ATA-7: SAMSUNG HD753LJ, 1AA01107, max UDMA7
ata3.00: 1465149168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32)
ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA SAMSUNG HD753LJ 1AA0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.1[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
scsi4 : pata_atiixp
scsi5 : pata_atiixp
ata5: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x00000000000101f0 ctl 0x00000000000103f6 bmdma 0x000000000001f900 irq 14
ata6: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x0000000000010170 ctl 0x0000000000010376 bmdma 0x000000000001f908 irq 15
ata5.00: ATAPI: HL-DT-STDVD-RAM GSA-H22L, 1.00, max UDMA/66
ata5.00: configured for UDMA/66
scsi 4:0:0:0: CD-ROM HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GSA-H22L 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 1 devices found
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
ohci_hcd: 2006 August 04 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 1465149168 512-byte hardware sectors (750156 MB)
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 1465149168 512-byte hardware sectors (750156 MB)
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
sda:<6>ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: OHCI Host Controller
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: irq 16, io mem 0xfe02e000
sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 sda6 >
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
usb usb1: new device found, idVendor=0000, idProduct=0000
usb usb1: new device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
usb usb1: Product: OHCI Host Controller
usb usb1: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.22.17-0.1-default ohci_hcd
usb usb1: SerialNumber: 0000:00:13.0
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.1[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: OHCI Host Controller
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: irq 17, io mem 0xfe02d000
usb usb2: new device found, idVendor=0000, idProduct=0000
usb usb2: new device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
usb usb2: Product: OHCI Host Controller
usb usb2: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.22.17-0.1-default ohci_hcd
usb usb2: SerialNumber: 0000:00:13.1
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.2[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: OHCI Host Controller
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: irq 18, io mem 0xfe02c000
usb usb3: new device found, idVendor=0000, idProduct=0000
usb usb3: new device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
usb usb3: Product: OHCI Host Controller
usb usb3: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.22.17-0.1-default ohci_hcd
usb usb3: SerialNumber: 0000:00:13.2
usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.5[D] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.5: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.5: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.5: debug port 1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.5: irq 19, io mem 0xfe029000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.5: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
usb usb4: new device found, idVendor=0000, idProduct=0000
usb usb4: new device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
usb usb4: Product: EHCI Host Controller
usb usb4: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.22.17-0.1-default ehci_hcd
usb usb4: SerialNumber: 0000:00:13.5
usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 10 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.3[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.3: OHCI Host Controller
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.3: irq 17, io mem 0xfe02b000
usb usb5: new device found, idVendor=0000, idProduct=0000
usb usb5: new device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
usb usb5: Product: OHCI Host Controller
usb usb5: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.22.17-0.1-default ohci_hcd
usb usb5: SerialNumber: 0000:00:13.3
usb usb5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 5-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.4[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.4: OHCI Host Controller
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.4: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 6
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.4: irq 18, io mem 0xfe02a000
usb usb6: new device found, idVendor=0000, idProduct=0000
usb usb6: new device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
usb usb6: Product: OHCI Host Controller
usb usb6: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.22.17-0.1-default ohci_hcd
usb usb6: SerialNumber: 0000:00:13.4
usb usb6: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 6-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 6-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
swsusp: Marking nosave pages: 000000000009f000 - 0000000000100000
swsusp: Marking nosave pages: 00000000cfee0000 - 0000000100000000
swsusp: Basic memory bitmaps created
swsusp: Basic memory bitmaps freed
Attempting manual resume
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on sda5, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
AppArmor: AppArmor initialized
audit(1211756972.580:2): type=1505 info="AppArmor initialized" pid=1152
sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
scsi 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5
input: Power Button (FF) as /class/input/input3
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
input: Power Button (CM) as /class/input/input4
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.2LK loaded
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:00.0 to 64
eth0: RTL8168b/8111b at 0xffffc2000063e000, 00:1d:7d:d0:c8:02, IRQ 18
piix4_smbus 0000:00:14.0: Found 0000:00:14.0 device
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
sr 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
rtc_cmos 00:05: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0
rtc_cmos: probe of 00:05 failed with error -16
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
parport_pc 00:0a: reported by Plug and Play ACPI
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:0e.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[22] MMIO=[fddff000-fddff7ff] Max Packet=[2048] IR/IT contexts=[4/8]
nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:01:00.0 to 64
NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 173.08 Wed Apr 2 07:55:48 PST 2008
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.2[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
fuse init (API version 7.8)
Adding 12586916k swap on /dev/sda3. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:12586916k
device-mapper: ioctl: 4.11.0-ioctl (2006-10-12) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[00f2ce5e00001d7d]
ip6_tables: © 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
ip_tables: © 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30.
nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (8192 buckets, 65536 max)
powernow-k8: Found 2 AMD Processor model unknown processors (version 2.00.00)
powernow-k8: 0 : fid 0x11 (2500 MHz), vid 0xe
powernow-k8: 1 : fid 0x10 (2400 MHz), vid 0xf
powernow-k8: 2 : fid 0xe (2200 MHz), vid 0x11
powernow-k8: 3 : fid 0xc (2000 MHz), vid 0x13
powernow-k8: 4 : fid 0xa (1800 MHz), vid 0x15
powernow-k8: 5 : fid 0x2 (1000 MHz), vid 0x16
r8169: eth0: link up
r8169: eth0: link up
audit(1211749790.240:3): audit_pid=2851 old=0 by auid=4294967295[/codebox]


The only line in which sda6 is mentioned at all is the one listing the partitions found:

...snip...
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 1465149168 512-byte hardware sectors (750156 MB)
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 1465149168 512-byte hardware sectors (750156 MB)
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
 sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 sda6 >
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
...snip...

What I don't get is why these lines appear twice. Can't remember if that's been like that from righter after installation.
Btw., I don't know if this is relevant, but I've run that drive in IDE-mode from the beginning, because I don't have a disk drive through which I could have loaded sata-drivers for the WindowsXP-installation.

The lines telling me what gets mounted only mention "sda5", which is, as I said, the root partition:

EXT3 FS on sda5, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.

These lines show up for sda6 only after I use "mount -a". I guess until this matter is resolved I'll put it into "/etc/profile.local", so I won't have to enter that every time I boot up my machine. The message about ".dmrc" spat out by gdm will remain being annyoing, however...


Any ideas? :unsure:


-Zalmoxis.

These lines show up for sda6 only after I use "mount -a". I guess until this matter is resolved I'll put it into "/etc/profile.local", so I won't have to enter that every time I boot up my machine. The message about ".dmrc" spat out by gdm will remain being annyoing, however...[/b]

I am baffled, do not understand why it does not even try to mount /home at boot.

About your "by-pass".
You put the mount -a (you could make it a mount /home so it shows what it is all about) in /etc/profile.local. That will be run as soon as a user logs in, but that is probably to late and you get the other error.

Try putting it in /etc/init.d/boot.local and test if this helps.

EDIT: I will think over the 'not mounting' a bit more, but at the moment I am as I said .... baffled.