Basically, my system is booting to a default home directory that I created during the update installation (not really thinking this through—don’t do fun stuff with yer installation when dealing with Covid, I guess?) with my actual home partition floating ‘over there’….
So, I guess I am asking, “how can I get a bogus home directory off /, and have a link from / to my home partition from now on?”
I hope this is making sense, and thanks in advance.
If it is ok to ask a followup, here it is (please just reply in the negative, and I will happily create a new post) I have done as you suggested, but now, when I reboot the system, it rejects my password (triple checked.)
If you can answer this last thing for me, I really appreciate it. But, at the same time, I am going to check into some way to…
Bypass load of X11 during boot, and…
see if I can get into ‘single user mode’ (?) and reset my admin password.
Not sure whats up there you could try to comment out the /home dir in fstab for a moment and see if it lets you in. you may need to copy contents from that /home dir to your new one.
I was actually able to ‘repair’ my problem with the live usb installer, where I adjusted my partitions, and especially properly identified my home partition properly in gparted, and reinstalled.