Home folder does not show its contents

Hi All,
I’m using opensuse 11.1 and running Gnome.

Since yesterday, the contents of my home directory dont open up in nautilus nor do they show up in terminal.

Nautilus just tells me that its searching and terminal is blank waiting for output.

Meanwhile just a normal ls lists the contents but not ls -a.

Totally clueless as to what to do.

Please help

Thanks in Advance

open a terminal and when this file opens, paste the contents here. DO this;

gnomesu gedit /etc/fstab

you will be asked for your root password

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Or just:

cat /etc/fstab

as any old user.

Good luck.

caf4926 wrote:
> open a terminal and when this file opens, paste the contents here. DO
> this;
>
> gnomesu gedit /etc/fstab
>
> you will be asked for your root password
>
>
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Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

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If i presume that the file is /etc/fstab then what contents do i add in there??

Seems like the answer is incomplete.

Unable to understand.

Please be a little clearer

Unless you post the contents of the file we can’t help

cat /etc/fstab

in a terminal - copy and paste here:

I’m sorry to have not gotten that earlier.

Here is the fstab contents.

/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST3500620AS_9QM52LKN-part1 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST3500620AS_9QM52LKN-part2 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST3500620AS_9QM52LKN-part3 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_SAMSUNG_HD040GJS09UJ10Y902240-part1 /windows/C vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_SAMSUNG_HD040GJS09UJ10Y902240-part5 /windows/D ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 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

Wish there was an attachment option.

Change to

/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST3500620AS_9QM52LKN-part3 /home                ext3 defaults 1 2

> /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST3500620AS_9QM52LKN-part3 /home
> ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2

and, in addition to changing as caf4926 said, i’d have to wonder HOW
and WHEN did “defaults” get changed to “acl,user_xattr”…


somebody_else

OK, I can answer this, yast defautls to acl,user_xattr…

> OK, I can answer this, yast defautls to acl,user_xattr…

hmmmm…it didn’t in 10.3 and that is where i am…


somebody_else

Mine for reference and no problems here:

ean@linux:~> cat /etc/fstab
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_TOSHIBA_MK8032G_X5CX6959T-part5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_TOSHIBA_MK8032G_X5CX6959T-part6 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_TOSHIBA_MK8032G_X5CX6959T-part7 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_TOSHIBA_MK8032G_X5CX6959T-part1 /windows/C ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=113,dmask=002,locale=en_US.UTF-8 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

I edited the /etc/fstab file as suggested. Its still the same.
Nautilus keeps searching for the files in my home directory while an ‘ls-a’ in the terminal gives me nothing…not even an error message.

Let me paste the contents of my current /etc/fstab just to make sure i’ve got it right.

Contents of /etc/fstab…

/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST3500620AS_9QM52LKN-part1 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST3500620AS_9QM52LKN-part2 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST3500620AS_9QM52LKN-part3 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_SAMSUNG_HD040GJS09UJ10Y902240-part1 /windows/C vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_SAMSUNG_HD040GJS09UJ10Y902240-part5 /windows/D ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 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

What do you get if you check show hidden files

By default when you go to home it will actually open at:
/home/your_username

It’s unlikely - but what if your username folder became .username
That’s why I ask to view hidden files.

My next suggestion would be to read the /home partition from a live cd. And if possible make a backup, as you may need to format it. But lets see what you report on hidden files first.

ls -a from terminal shows nothing.

terminal does not even give me an error message. Waited for almost 15 whole minutes.

You make not comment about my comments/suggestions in post #13

No offense intended

> Since yesterday, the contents of my home directory dont open up in
> nautilus nor do they show up in terminal.

friendly: what did you do yesterday (11 May 2009) to change your
system in anyway??

did you (for example) install Java?? if so, see http://tinyurl.com/oxt8bx

if not, see it anyway…because you need to remember what you did (or
YaST Online Update did) between the last time the /home contents
showed, and the first time they didn’t…and then UNdo that…

if you get stuck on that path, then i’d suggest you add a new user,
log in as that user and see if the contents of the new users directory
show up in nautilus and/or the terminal…(because i bet they
do–which means your system is ok, just some config in your
broken-home is screwed…come back when you have checked the new
user’s home, and ask how to check the good against the bad and
therefore learn WHAT to fix)


decorated_warrior

Created a new user.

Still the same problem.

I upgraded to 11.1 from 11.0, things were working fine.

Installed Mono-Develop. Thats pretty much what i did. Can’t figure out what might be the problem.

Firstly are you sure it is mounted…

cat /etc/mtab

If it shows it mounted have you done as suggested and confirmed it isn’t user error and its not been formatted, by booting with a live cd and checking if the content is there?