diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 6f951e095a7..3026e078cbd 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -271,6 +271,9 @@ Release 0.23.1 - Unreleased
    HADOOP-7964. Deadlock in NetUtils and SecurityUtil class initialization.
    (Daryn Sharp via suresh)
 
+   HADOOP-7974. TestViewFsTrash incorrectly determines the user's home
+   directory. (harsh via eli)
+
 Release 0.23.0 - 2011-11-01 
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/viewfs/TestViewFsTrash.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/viewfs/TestViewFsTrash.java
index 9239f2f1f8c..7795c3f5f02 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/viewfs/TestViewFsTrash.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/viewfs/TestViewFsTrash.java
@@ -78,17 +78,16 @@ public class TestViewFsTrash {
     // set up viewfs's home dir root to point to home dir root on target
     // But home dir is different on linux, mac etc.
     // Figure it out by calling home dir on target
-    
-   String homeDir = fsTarget.getHomeDirectory().toUri().getPath();
-   int indexOf2ndSlash = homeDir.indexOf('/', 1);
-   String homeDirRoot = homeDir.substring(0, indexOf2ndSlash);
-   ConfigUtil.addLink(conf, homeDirRoot,
-       fsTarget.makeQualified(new Path(homeDirRoot)).toUri()); 
-   ConfigUtil.setHomeDirConf(conf, homeDirRoot);
-   Log.info("Home dir base " + homeDirRoot);
-    
+
+    String homeDirRoot = fsTarget.getHomeDirectory()
+        .getParent().toUri().getPath();
+    ConfigUtil.addLink(conf, homeDirRoot,
+        fsTarget.makeQualified(new Path(homeDirRoot)).toUri());
+    ConfigUtil.setHomeDirConf(conf, homeDirRoot);
+    Log.info("Home dir base " + homeDirRoot);
+
     fsView = ViewFileSystemTestSetup.setupForViewFs(conf, fsTarget);
-    
+
     // set working dir so that relative paths
     //fsView.setWorkingDirectory(new Path(fsTarget.getWorkingDirectory().toUri().getPath()));
     conf.set("fs.defaultFS", FsConstants.VIEWFS_URI.toString());