[K12OSN] The corrupted users saga continues
Peter Scheie
peter at scheie.homedns.org
Tue Oct 9 13:05:58 UTC 2007
I've run into this same problem, bunch of errors, black desktop. Do
what Nils and Klaus suggested: check the permissions of hidden files in
the user's $HOME (particularly any directory beginning with .g*) and in
/tmp. Deleting all of these solved the problem.
Peter
Carl Keil wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> So, I've got a brand new installation of K12LTSP 6.0.0. I set up some
> users and then I thought I needed to remove them and recreate them.
> Now, the recreated ones can't log in. When they log in there's a flurry
> of about 15 error messages. They talk about not being able to access
> gconf, and stale nfs locks, etc., etc. (I can copy the exact wording
> and post that if it would help.) When all the error messages are
> closed, the desktop shows up completely black, with a few random seeming
> icons on the desktop.
> I've tried deleting the users and recreating them. And it doesn't
> work. It's really weird. The users are corrupted even after they've
> been fully deleted and recreated. Some other users can log in fine.
> So, some file somewhere is remembering the old users or something. I've
> also tried the "Reset my Desktop" login option.
>
> Can anyone suggest a way to solve this problem? I really need for these
> users to have their specific names, so I can restore some files to their
> /home directories from backup. The only thing I can think of is a
> complete reinstall of K12LTSP, but that seems a little drastic, since
> most users work, and a couple are hosed.
>
> Thanks so much for any ideas,
>
> ck
>
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