[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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