If you ever copy or rsync your home directory to another drive on Linux (especially Fedora 19), you may find that Google Chrome starts to crash whenever you type punctuation, including space characters, into HTML form fields like input or textarea.

You may also find that ‘useradd’ complains that it can’t create home directory.

It turns out that this is because of SELinux having incorrectly file labels for the files in the new home directory. Simply run:

touch /.autorelabel
reboot

Alternatively, you can manually run:

fixfiles relabel

but apparently getting the init process to relabel during startup is the recommended option as it ensures all processes have the new labels when they start up.