[K12OSN] Stuck User

[Petre Scheie]

Check the /tmp directory for leftover files tied to that user.  I had a similar problem 
on a machine this past weekend where a test user ID was having troubles.  I deleted the 
ID, recreated it, but still had problems with Gnome.  Turned out there were files in 
/tmp that had the user ID in the file name that were causing problems.  Cleaned out /tmp 
and everything was fine.

Petre

Carl Keil wrote:
> Hi Group,
> 
> I had to ditch my /home drive for the time being because it has bad 
> sectors.  So, I removed the drive and reformatted it thinking I could 
> just recreate my users.  Now when I add a certain user (that existed 
> before) her screen comes up completely blank when she logs in, with all 
> kinds of Gnome errors.  When I look into her /home folder it only has a 
> .kde directory and a few .files nothing like new users (created after 
> the drive swap) that have a .kde .gnome, etc., etc. files and folders in 
> their /home directories.
> So, how do I completely get these old users out of the system so I can 
> start over.  I tried System->Administration->Users and Groups and I 
> tried userdel -r <username> from the command line.   (and I've tried 
> Google)  Both of these delete the user from /etc/shadow and remove the 
> /home directory.  But when I recreate the user her /home directory is 
> missing most of the stuff.  I've never seen this before, but I'm sure 
> somebody has a one liner fix for this.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> ck
> 
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