[K12OSN] The corrupted users saga continues

Nils Breunese nils at breun.nl
Tue Oct 9 08:08:14 UTC 2007


Carl Keil wrote:

> 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.

Are hidden files and directories in the homedirs also chown'ed  
correctly?

Nils Breunese.


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