locked out of home directory??

[Matt Price]

On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 19:44 -0400, Mel Wilson wrote:
> matt.price-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org wrote:
> > hi folks,
> > 
> > i've run into a weird problem -- i can't access the home directory of my 
> > main user on a system running ubuntu gutsy.  xsession fails with a 
> > less-than-ten-seconds error, and when i log in at the console i get the 
> > message:
> > 
> > No directory, logging in with HOME=/
> > 
> > if i try to
> > ls /home/matt
> > or
> > cd /home/matt
> > i get
> > Permission denied.
> > 
> > but if i ls -ld /home/matt it shows
> > 
> > drw-r--r-- matt matt   /home/matt
> > 
> > doesn't that seem bizarre?  anyway, it's a drag, and i'm writing this 
> > from a windows computer in my house, and it'd terribly disheartening.  
> > plus i have work to do!
> 
> will
> 
> sudo chmod a+x /home/matt
> 
> help?
> 
umm... yes...  

gah, sorry for the noise.  even though i don't understand what it means
for a directory to be executable, i would have thought i'd have tried
this on my own.  i can only plead in my defence that my 4-year=old was
screaming his head off at me at the time...

matt



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Matt Price
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