Hi, First i see that "/home" is not mapped to any partition. So "/home" is a subtree of your root partition. May it be that there is not enough space on the root partition for user's ".*" data when logging in? May it be that "/home" was originally mapped to it's own partition, and that partition is broken for some reason? See if there is a "/home" mapping in "/etc/fstab" and see in your system logfiles what happens at boot. Log in in console-mode as "root" and then do "su - <username>". Now you should be in the login directory of one of your users. See if this directory exists and seems "normal". Check user and group ownership, check "user, group, other" permissions. User must have "rwx" on the directory "/home/<username>" and on most content in it! jfreres -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Lilux-help] fstab on Suse10.0 Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 09:05:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Gilles Maria-Sube &lt;mgms1(a)yahoo.com&gt; To: lilux-help(a)lilux.lu Hi, Recently I installed Ogle video player on Suse10.0, and once done, Ogle failed to start, printing several messages, I remember on previous installations that it is due to the file /etc/fstab which is incomplete; initial content is: /dev/hda4 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1 /dev/hda2 /boot ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2 /dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 /dev/hda1 /windows/C ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0 ~ (assuming /dev/hda1 is used for windows partition);but it lacks something for the cdrom which should be mounted on /mnt/cdrom; I suppose this is why dvd cannot be read. Unfortunately I modified this file, adding wrong parameters and since this time I cannot open any session on KDE or GNOME: when entering user name and passwd on KDE I have the messages: 'could not start kstartupconfig' and after I have 'could not start kdeinit'. Anybody knows how to add an entry in the file fstab? Thank you in advance for suggestions Cheers M. _______________________________________________ Lilux-help mailing list Lilux-help(a)lilux.lu http://lilux.lu/mailman/listinfo/lilux-help