locked out of home directory??

[James Knott]

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!
>

Directories need the execute "x" bit set to list the files.  For
example, my home directory shows drwxr-xr-x.

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