locked out of home directory??

[James Knott]

Matt Price wrote:
> 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...
>   

He was probably telling you to set the execute bit.    ;-)

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