I have a Fedora Linux server, connected to LDAP, and I can't log in to it as my normal user.
I can still log in as root, but even then, I can't create my normal user's home directory. LDAP is configured to auto-mount the user's home directory, but this doesn't seem to be happening. Regretfully, mkdir gives me no useful error message. e.g.
[myuser@localhost ~]# ssh myuser@otherhost Connection closed by otherhost [myuser@localhost ~]# ssh root@otherhost [root@otherhost ~]# cd /home [root@otherhost home]# ls [root@otherhost home]# mkdir myuser mkdir: cannot create directory `myuser': No such file or directory What is causing this error?
I suspect something with LDAP has gotten fubared, and that's preventing the directory creation. However, I'm not sure where to begin researching this, as I'm not seeing any useful error messages.
How should I investigate this? Googling for problems creating home directories only gives me a million entries about using mkdir -p, which doesn't help.
EDIT: otherhost:/etc/fstab contains the following line, which defines the mount point for /home:
/dev/mapper/vg_otherhost-lv_home /home ext4 defaults 1 2 EDIT: vgdiplay output
[root@otherhost ~]# vgdisplay -v Finding all volume groups Finding volume group "vg_otherhost" --- Volume group --- VG Name vg_otherhost System ID Format lvm2 Metadata Areas 1 Metadata Sequence No 4 VG Access read/write VG Status resizable MAX LV 0 Cur LV 3 Open LV 3 Max PV 0 Cur PV 1 Act PV 1 VG Size 149.50 GiB PE Size 32.00 MiB Total PE 4784 Alloc PE / Size 4784 / 149.50 GiB Free PE / Size 0 / 0 VG UUID UnbJdL-v1XY-2HzI-QoHQ-jwtD-0U6N-Nuh66I --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/vg_otherhost/lv_root VG Name vg_otherhost LV UUID m1Lp6A-SHqa-V3Of-r8GS-TpE6-R42B-M99DbQ LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 50.00 GiB Current LE 1600 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors auto - currently set to 256 Block device 253:0 --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/vg_otherhost/lv_home VG Name vg_otherhost LV UUID pqxV47-8QyV-gFpi-xAdn-gfIq-wdV3-rkIeXN LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 93.66 GiB Current LE 2997 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors auto - currently set to 256 Block device 253:2 --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/vg_otherhost/lv_swap VG Name vg_otherhost LV UUID f4tqzv-cxEh-rlmU-mByY-RdkM-V1Iz-o4gCRv LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 5.84 GiB Current LE 187 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors auto - currently set to 256 Block device 253:1 --- Physical volumes --- PV Name /dev/sda2 PV UUID lQDn1b-emBB-b75e-e6kt-KxBu-OheR-mB12Ac PV Status allocatable Total PE / Free PE 4784 / 0 Autofs appears to be running.
Contents of /etc/auto.master:
/misc /etc/auto.misc /net -hosts +auto.master Contents of /etc/auto.misc:
cd -fstype=iso9660,ro,nosuid,nodev :/dev/cdrom Contents of /etc/auto.net:
#!/bin/bash key="$1" opts="-fstype=nfs,hard,intr,nodev,nosuid" for P in /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin do for M in showmount kshowmount do if [ -x $P/$M ] then SMNT=$P/$M break fi done done [ -x $SMNT ] || exit 1 SHOWMOUNT="$SMNT --no-headers -e $key" $SHOWMOUNT | LC_ALL=C sort -k 1 | \ awk -v key="$key" -v opts="$opts" -- ' BEGIN { ORS=""; first=1 } { if (first) { print opts; first=0 }; print " \\\n\t" $1, key ":" $1 } END { if (!first) print "\n"; else exit 1 } ' | sed 's/#/\\#/g' Contents of /etc/auto.smb:
#!/bin/bash key="$1" opts="-fstype=cifs" for P in /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin do if [ -x $P/smbclient ] then SMBCLIENT=$P/smbclient break fi done [ -x $SMBCLIENT ] || exit 1 $SMBCLIENT -gNL $key 2>/dev/null| awk -v key="$key" -v opts="$opts" -F'|' -- ' BEGIN { ORS=""; first=1 } /Disk/ { if (first) print opts; first=0 dir = $2 loc = $2 # Enclose mount dir and location in quotes # Double quote "$" in location as it is special gsub(/\$$/, "\\$", loc); gsub(/\&/,"\\\\&",loc) print " \\\n\t \"/" dir "\"", "\"://" key "/" loc "\"" } END { if (!first) print "\n"; else exit 1 } ' Contents of /etc/sysconfig/autofs:
TIMEOUT=300 BROWSE_MODE="no" MOUNT_NFS_DEFAULT_PROTOCOL=4 USE_MISC_DEVICE="yes" 
