[K12OSN] Stuck User
Carl Keil
carl at snarlnet.com
Mon Oct 16 20:16:03 UTC 2006
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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