Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2020 17:05:06 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: freebsd@dreamchaser.org Cc: ltcddata <ltcddata@ltcddata.plus.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: crash on login with mounted home drive Message-ID: <20200315170506.96988775.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <aaafa0ec-fe6b-6bbd-e5c8-b5569e083c6f@dreamchaser.org> References: <ef18b07d7772ff4ae4a9765920242409@imap.plus.net> <aaafa0ec-fe6b-6bbd-e5c8-b5569e083c6f@dreamchaser.org>
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On Sun, 15 Mar 2020 15:47:53 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: > On 3/15/20 5:41 AM, ltcddata wrote: > > Been using freebsd since 7.1, and by 7.2 added in a drive for /home/user > > which has been fine. However I had to stop for around a year around > > 10.2, but when I came back on 11.2 suddenly logging in with KDE/Gnome > > XFCE would grind the computer to a halt and crash either during login or > > within 30 seconds. This does not happen if I boot up using only the root > > drive, and use the standard /home/user. Currently Mate is the only > > desktop I have which works with a mounted /home/user drive, but does > > anyone know what is causing this? > > No idea, but I run a similar setup. > /home is a symlink to /usr/home > I had to manually change /usr/home to be a symlink to /mnt/home or > equivalent where the disk is mounted. I have always started with a "real" /home - either being a top level entry on the / partition (the "all in one" approach), or as a mountpoint for a 2nd disk (in that case, /home was of course always empty). I have _never_ used /usr/home, and actually that directory doesn't even exist in my installations. I also have a few systems that stick to the Solarism (Solarisisim) of /export/home, those are servers that export home directories to other machines where /export/home gets mounted as /home; in those cases, /usr/home also doesn't exist. Not that I'm aware of any software that might _expect_ /usr/home to be present and populated, but it could be possible... So having /usr/home "pointing back" to /home (the mountpoint for a 2nd disk) will definitely deal with the problem of /usr/home vs. /home that could lead to "configuration file and path confusion". :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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