Renaming home folder

[inkslinger]

Well, it looks like the rename of the group and home directory did not go through.

Using "root" from a text console, you can use this to try and fix it.

Code:

groupmod -n adam rock
tail /etc/group
ls -l /home

usermod -d adam -m adam
tail /etc/passwd
ls -la /home/adam

That should do it. I've included some verification steps to help.

But, I guarentee nothing :-).

This seemed to partly work, but the final command gave me the message:

Code:

ls: cannot access '/home/adam': No such file or directory

And I'm now unable to login to user adam from the login screen. It just keeps taking me back to the login screen unless I log in as root.

Time to just create a new user?

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OK, after doing:

Code:

-d /home/adam -m adam

I was able to once again login as adam from the GUI login screen.

Once in the account, a pop-up indicated:

Configured directory for incoming files does not exist.
Please make sure that directory "/home/rock" exists or configure it with blueman-services

I ran blueman-services to attempt to change the incoming folder, but clicking on the dropdown is unresponsive. Hovering the cursor over the drop down shows the message: "Applet's transfer service plugin is disabled".

Terminal gave the following readout:

Code:

adam@Debian-Desktop:~$ blueman-services
blueman-services version 2.0.4 starting
_________
load_plugins (/usr/bin/blueman-services:91)
['Network', 'Transfer']
_________
set_page (/usr/bin/blueman-services:138)
Set page Transfer
Gtk-Message: GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent. This is discouraged.

(blueman-services:1259): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to fetch network locations: Timeout was reached

Am I screwed? Should I create a new user and delete user adam? If so, uh, how do I do that?