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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:40:13 -0800
From: Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net>
To: Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl>
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Subject: Re: What happened to /home?
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On 2009.12.24 00:21:47 +0000, Pieter de Goeje wrote:
> On Thursday 24 December 2009 00:01:11 Rem P Roberti wrote:
> > Today I booted my laptop and discovered that /home was gone.  Well...not
> > exactly..but for all intents and purposes.  The system isn't seeing it
> > although I can see it when I cd to /.  But if I try and cd to /home from
> > there the system tells me "home:Not a directory."  What happened, and
> > what can I do about it?
> >
> > Rem
> 
> Usually /home is a symlink to /usr/home. Perhaps the symlink is busted? What 
> it the output of `ls -ld /home' ? If you can still login as a regular user, 
> what does `pwd -P' say just after you are logged in?
> 

I can still login as regular user, and when I run 'pwd -P' the output is
/ and then it goes back to the prompt.  Output of 'ls -ld /home is:

lrwxr-xr-x  1 root wheel 8 Dec 18 12:08 /home -> usr/home

Rem