Hi all
First some background info:
I have three users set up on my 10.2.8 iMac DV 400, myself (timp), guest (guest) and one for my kids (user name: E and T, shortname: eandt).
I have two partitions on the 40Gb HD, a 5Gb "OS X" partition, and a 35GB "iMac HD" partition, and I've used Netinfo Manager to set the users folder to be in /volumes/imac hd/usersX/.
This setup has worked fine for many months from 10.1 through to 10.2.4 but it was only after running 10.2.5 and above that the problem I am about to describe started happening (but I don't think it's OS version related).
However what is happening almost always now is that when I log on as eandt the following message appears:
"You have inserted a disk that contains no volumes that Mac OS X can read. To continue with the disk inserted click ignore".
Then it proceeds to load up a "default" desktop, not the customised one I had created.
If I then log out and log back in as timp, I get a message saying:
"Home folder for user 'x' cannot be found in the usual place..."
Now I know how to fix this because I originally posted that issue here back in April (see
http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...hreadid=156788). What's basically happening is that if I do:
ls -l /volumes
I see two iMac HD volumes:
drwx------ 3 emilytob wheel 102 Apr 21 11:43 iMac HD
drwxrwxrwx 34 timp unknown 1156 Apr 21 21:12 iMac HD 1
It's a relatively straightforward matter to rm -r "imac hd" then reboot and all is ok again as long as I log in, but if eant log in it's back to the same problem again!
I've tried deleting eandt and making a new user with a different name, and moving their user folder over to the bigger partition (using ditto incidentally) but the same thing happens.
There are no problems with the guest account though...
Sorry about the long nature of the post, but I'm at a bit of a loss as to why it's happening, and what this disk is that contains no volumes that Mac OS X can read is...
I hope someone can shed some light as to what's going on.
Thanks
Tim
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