no directory /home/###! logging in with home=/

[tzwen]

I am a fresh guy in Linux,in fact I just install Fedora 10 in my PC which has been installed XP for few days.In the beginning I parted 8G space for Fedora's "/"partion,
I didn't separate the /home directory.
Today,after I mount a new drive in my disk as /home(I renamed my previous "/home"folder and made a new one ,then edited the script in /etc/fstab to automatic
mount the new drive,after restart the computer I moved all files from previous "/home" to new" /home" folder.It seems everything is OK,but when I logging in console
I always get this message " no directory /home/###! logging in with home=/ "(### refers my user name) Does anyone can help this issue ,thanks

[notageek]

What is the path specified in /etc/passwd?

Did you check if the permissions and ownership of the new /home are same?

[tzwen]

"tangwen:x:501:501:tzwen:/home/tangwen:/bin/bash" I found this line in /etc/passwd,but I have no idea of it .I changed permissions of new /home but make things worse,I cannot logging in ,what is the problem?the ownership is me but i have no permission to access any file in my /home now,help

[notageek]

Can you log-in as root? "Ctrl-Alt-F2"

Post the output of

# ls -l /home/
# df -hT

[tzwen]

I run the chmod 777 on /home/tangwen ,now I can log in but still get the "no director~~~~"message
here is the output:
[tangwen@localhost ~]$ ls -l /home/
total 20
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 2009-04-04 15:40 lost+found
drwxrwxrwx 30 tangwen tangwen 4096 2009-04-04 18:38 tangwen
[tangwen@localhost ~]$ df -hT
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda9 ext3 7.3G 4.4G 2.5G 65% /
/dev/sda8 ext3 8.3G 179M 7.7G 3% /home
tmpfs tmpfs 505M 352K 504M 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda7 fuseblk 30G 27G 3.3G 89% /media/disk
/dev/sda6 fuseblk 54G 12G 43G 22% /media/disk-1
[tangwen@localhost ~]$

[notageek]

Do you still have the old /home and files in it? Then try this

# chmod --reference=/old/home/tangwen -R /home/tangwen

I'm assuming your old home directory still has correct permissions.

Edit: Also trying this wouldn't hurt.

# chown --reference=/old/home/tangwen -R /home/tangwen

My assumption still applies for this command.

[tzwen]

Oh I did a foolish thing,I have deleted the old one.I think maybe I should change the ownership to users on all files
Do you think it will works.By the way,I really appreciate you help.It's so kind of you.

[notageek]

That might work.

[tzwen]

I also get this in selinux,does it influnce?
Summary:

SELinux is preventing access to files with the label, file_t.

Detailed Description:

SELinux permission checks on files labeled file_t are being denied. file_t is
the context the SELinux kernel gives to files that do not have a label. This
indicates a serious labeling problem. No files on an SELinux box should ever be
labeled file_t. If you have just added a new disk drive to the system you can
relabel it using the restorecon command. Otherwise you should relabel the entire
files system.

Allowing Access:

You can execute the following command as root to relabel your computer system:
"touch /.autorelabel; reboot"

Additional Information:

Source Context system_u:system_r:local_login_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
Target Context system_u:object_r:file_t:s0
Target Objects / [ dir ]
Source login
Source Path /bin/login
Port <Unknown>
Host localhost.localdomain
Source RPM Packages util-linux-ng-2.14.1-3.2.fc10
Target RPM Packages filesystem-2.4.19-1.fc10
Policy RPM selinux-policy-3.5.13-53.fc10
Selinux Enabled True
Policy Type targeted
MLS Enabled True
Enforcing Mode Enforcing
Plugin Name file
Host Name localhost.localdomain
Platform Linux localhost.localdomain
2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.i686 #1 SMP Mon Mar 23
23:37:54 EDT 2009 i686 athlon
Alert Count 21
First Seen Sat 04 Apr 2009 04:01:32 PM CST
Last Seen Sat 04 Apr 2009 07:33:58 PM CST
Local ID 255a09ef-5a1f-4b2c-b5f4-012d8f73b18a
Line Numbers

Raw Audit Messages

node=localhost.localdomain type=AVC msg=audit(1238844838.706:295): avc: denied { search } for pid=6442 comm="login" name="/" dev=sda8 ino=2 scontext=system_u:system_r:local_login_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:object_r:file_t:s0 tclass=dir

node=localhost.localdomain type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1238844838.706:295): arch=40000003 syscall=12 success=no exit=-13 a0=9ae42e8 a1=1f5 a2=804d328 a3=bfdf0638 items=0 ppid=6426 pid=6442 auid=501 uid=501 gid=501 euid=501 suid=501 fsuid=501 egid=501 sgid=501 fsgid=501 tty=tty4 ses=14 comm="login" exe="/bin/login" subj=system_u:system_r:local_login_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null)

[notageek]

The following is the suggested solution in the error message. The command needs to be run as root.

# touch /.autorelabel; reboot

[tzwen]

yeah,I just noticed that,now ,after reboot my pc,the problem was fixed.
Thank you for your kindness!

[notageek]

You're welcome.