Users' encrypted home partition inaccessible but root can see it

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I have installed OpenSUSE 64-bit12.2 after having formerly used 12.1 (and, in between, another distro). In this fresh install, I set up an encrypted “/home” partition separate from " /". Root can login, and via dolphin (after I enter the password) can see the “/home” partition. However, when I try to login as an ordinary user, I get the message “Cannot enter home directory.,” followed by “Call to lnusertemp failed. (Temporary directory full?. Check your installation.)”

Browsing around I see that this message can have any number of causes, but my guess is that it might have something to do with my fstab, which looks like this:

/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3500413AS_5VMPV5Y6-part1 /                    ext4       acl,user_xattr        1 1
/dev/mapper/cr_home  /home                ext4       acl,user_xattr,nofail 0 2
/dev/mapper/cr_swap  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

“df” shows the following

monk:~ # df
Filesystem                                                             1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs                                                                  24343508  5203948  18089796  23% /
devtmpfs                                                                 4041236       36   4041200   1% /dev
tmpfs                                                                    4050224        4   4050220   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs                                                                    4050224      776   4049448   1% /run
/dev/sda1                                                               24343508  5203948  18089796  23% /
tmpfs                                                                    4050224        0   4050224   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs                                                                    4050224        0   4050224   0% /media
tmpfs                                                                    4050224      776   4049448   1% /var/lock
tmpfs                                                                    4050224      776   4049448   1% /var/run
/dev/mapper/udisks-luks-uuid-f8414be4-bf19-480f-81a6-c285044dc423-uid0 241668128 91737140 148963116  39% /media/3ad33561-bafe-4685-b4b8-fa412f6be340

Root can su to a regular user account, but this ordinary user can only see what’s in the root partition. I assume there’s a command I could use to make “/home” visible to my ordinary users, but I can’t guess what it is.

What to do?

2

In trying to further diagnose this, I rebooted (again) and suddenly everything is fine. Thanks to anyone who spent time thinking about this, if I am lucky it is fixed (tho it remains a mystery)

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Evidently something went wrong during boot, that resulted in “/home” not being mounted.

When you logged in at the GUI as root (be prepared to be told that’s a no-no), and mounted using dolphin, it was mounted in a non-standard place, as shows in your “df” output.

If it happens again, then login to root at the command line only, and try:


# mount /home

Make a note of any error messages.