#9088 NORM Not Tri: 2581 no actual directory where $HOME for root

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#9088: 2581 no actual directory where $HOME for root
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 Reporter:  mikus         |                 Owner:               
     Type:  defect        |                Status:  new          
 Priority:  normal        |             Milestone:  Not Triaged  
Component:  not assigned  |               Version:  not specified
 Keywords:                |           Next_action:  never set    
 Verified:  0             |   Deployment_affected:               
Blockedby:                |              Blocking:               
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 Did ctl-alt-F2 (plus <enter>) to get to text console.  'pwd' showed the
 current directory as '/'.  The reason was that /root (the value stored in
 $HOME for user root) was defined as a symbolic link to /home/root -- but
 there was not any directory /home/root.

 Whatever software defines /root as a symbolic link, needs to make sure
 that there exists a real directory where that link points.

 [I've been using 'olpc-update' to install new builds.  Since that is
 supposed to leave /home untouched, I have no idea of when or why
 /home/root (if there ever was such a thing) wasn't there.]

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9088>
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