Re: How to remove a user. Problems after firstboot crashed on F9
On Monday 04 August 2008 04:41, Tim wrote: On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 20:28 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: The question is. How do I remove the original user that was partially setup before firstboot crashed. Command line: userdel GUI tool: system-config-users Tried that after Aaron suggested it, and recreated the same user with useradd afterwards, but no change. If I run adduser, It says that djmons is already a user, but logging in as djmons has no access to /home/djmons, as apparently the /home/djmons directory does not exist. You could try making the directory, changing its ownership to djmons:djmons, then seeing if KDE or Gnome creates the files it needs when you log in. Well the /home/djmons directory did exist, and /etc/group shows djmons there, but the permissions for /home/djmons were set for User root, Group root. Simply changing them to djmons has resolved the problem. A confusing at first problem, but as it turned out, dead easy to fix. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ uname -r 2.6.25.11-97.fc9.i686 Thanks to both you and Aaron for the replies. Nigel. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
How to remove a user. Problems after firstboot crashed on F9
Having installed Fedora 9, I rebooted, and firstboot ran. Entered my Actual name, then username, followed by password. After repeating password as requested, firstboot crashed. It was late, and I'm not sure if the machine was auto rebooted, or just locked up. Either way, when I next booted the machine (and a lot of stuff skipped here) I ended up with a login screen, which showed my real name, and hovering the mouse over my name said logging in as djmons. That's ok, as it was the correct username, but entering the password to login to Gnome just brought me back to the login screen. I use KDE, so chose to login to KDE next, and got the following output. Could not start kstartupconfig4. Check your installation This appears to be the result of firstboot crashing when setting up user/password, as when I booted into runlevel 3, and tried to login as djmons, I got the following output. localhost login: djmons Password: No directory /home/djmons Logging in with home = /. This is getting frustrating now, but su to root, and create a new user. I now reboot, and the login screen shows one entry for my real name, and a new entry for the new user I have created. Logging in to either Gnome, or KDE, as the new user presents no problems, and can login to either Gnome, or KDE. The question is. How do I remove the original user that was partially setup before firstboot crashed. If I run adduser, It says that djmons is already a user, but logging in as djmons has no access to /home/djmons, as apparently the /home/djmons directory does not exist. How do I remove djmons, as a user from the system, so that he no longer exists? Then I can recreate the original user (djmons), and hopefully be able to access both Gnome and KDE. I've never had such problems before with Fedora like this. Is firstboot crashing a known problem? Thanks for any help with this problem. Nigel. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: How to remove a user. Problems after firstboot crashed on F9
On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 20:28 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: Having installed Fedora 9, I rebooted, and firstboot ran. Entered my Actual name, then username, followed by password. After repeating password as requested, firstboot crashed. It was late, and I'm not sure if the machine was auto rebooted, or just locked up. Either way, when I next booted the machine (and a lot of stuff skipped here) I ended up with a login screen, which showed my real name, and hovering the mouse over my name said logging in as djmons. That's ok, as it was the correct username, but entering the password to login to Gnome just brought me back to the login screen. I use KDE, so chose to login to KDE next, and got the following output. Could not start kstartupconfig4. Check your installation This appears to be the result of firstboot crashing when setting up user/password, as when I booted into runlevel 3, and tried to login as djmons, I got the following output. localhost login: djmons Password: No directory /home/djmons Logging in with home = /. This is getting frustrating now, but su to root, and create a new user. I now reboot, and the login screen shows one entry for my real name, and a new entry for the new user I have created. Logging in to either Gnome, or KDE, as the new user presents no problems, and can login to either Gnome, or KDE. The question is. How do I remove the original user that was partially setup before firstboot crashed. If I run adduser, It says that djmons is already a user, but logging in as djmons has no access to /home/djmons, as apparently the /home/djmons directory does not exist. How do I remove djmons, as a user from the system, so that he no longer exists? Then I can recreate the original user (djmons), and hopefully be able to access both Gnome and KDE. I've never had such problems before with Fedora like this. Is firstboot crashing a known problem? Thanks for any help with this problem. Nigel. If userdel does not work then one can use the brute force approach. That i, rm the entry from. passwd, shadow, group and then remove the home directory. -- === To err is human, but when the eraser wears out before the pencil, you're overdoing it a little. === Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: How to remove a user. Problems after firstboot crashed on F9
On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 20:28 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: The question is. How do I remove the original user that was partially setup before firstboot crashed. Command line: userdel GUI tool: system-config-users If I run adduser, It says that djmons is already a user, but logging in as djmons has no access to /home/djmons, as apparently the /home/djmons directory does not exist. You could try making the directory, changing its ownership to djmons:djmons, then seeing if KDE or Gnome creates the files it needs when you log in. But it's probably easier to login as someone else, remove the broken user, delete the homespace, and create that user again. I've never had such problems before with Fedora like this. Is firstboot crashing a known problem? Haven't seen that, but have seen something similar when I decided to see what would happen if I created a user outside of /home. I entered a different path into the gadget in system-config-users, one that did have all the right SELinux contexts set up (for user homespaces), in advance. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ uname -r 2.6.25.11-97.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
