Hi,
I use XFCE with GDM, and currently when I login my current working directory is set to /, not /home/ollie as I'd expect. I'm not really sure where to start looking to solve this, but it's a tad frustrating when everything keeps opening in the wrong directory!
Run this command in a terminal:
cat /etc/passwd | grep ollie
If the second item from the right isn't /home/ollie, edit the file (as root) so that it is. Log out, log in and it should be working correctly.
It might not work if there is some problem with the /home file system but you should give this a try.
As root run the following:
usermod --home /home/ollie ollie
Edit
I see your default shell is zsh. Please take a look in to the following files and check if there is some directive there to change your default shell to be / (root)
$ZDOTDIR/.zshenv
$ZDOTDIR/.zprofile
$ZDOTDIR/.zshrc
$ZDOTDIR/.zlogin
$ZDOTDIR/.zlogout
/etc/profile
If ZDOTDIR is not set, then the value of HOME is used; this is the usual case.
For more info visit the following link http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Intro/intro_3.html
Solved it! My home directory had an incorrect SELinux profile, the following fixed it:
semanage fcontext -a -t user_home_t /home
restorecon -v /home
Attempting to login to console 2 showed the error, so I was finally able to track it down.
Asked: 2013-01-14 09:27:39 -0500
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Last updated: Jan 15 '13
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