Hello,
There was....but I a newbie thought it was for checkin my HDD which I was sure was in perfect condition.
DVD Media should be all right as you were able to install.
1.Your home directory is listed as /home/easwarh but it doesn't seem to exist.Do you want to login with the root directory as your home directory?It's unlikely anything will work unless you do so. Options:Yes No.....I selected Yes and proceeded.....
This means for some reason mandrake is failing to mount /home partition during boot process. Main reasons could be 1. May be some bug in distro. 2. Just guess: Your SELINUX is enabled. Some policy failure during boot process is causing disabled access to /home partition. Let us know if you use home partition from outside of mandrake, eg. from windows OR other linux install. Also you can switch of SELINUX if not needed.
2.$HOME/.dmrc file is being ignored.Your home directory /home/easwarh either doesn't exist or you are not the owner.Home directory should have 644 permissions and not be writable by other users.
If home is not mounted nothing on home will be visible. Try googling .dmrc selinux.
If same problem occurs in future please do following. 1. Go to command line login as root. Check log file /var/log/dmsg, /var/log/messages OR /var/log/syslog for any failure during boot. 2. Don't panic use following commands sh# mount #you should see all mounted partitions, see if /home is mounted, if not give next command sh#mount -a #it should mount your home partition, verify using mount 3. If everything goes fine goto gui login prompt and try login. 4. Let us know if it worked. 5. You can bzip and mail me offlist your log files /var/log/messages, /var/log/syslog. System logs might be having useful info about previous incidents. Search logs by date and time when last incident occurred.
Regards Balwinder Singh