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On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 1:58 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote: |
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> Mark Knecht posted on Fri, 08 Apr 2016 10:18:58 -0700 as excerpted: |
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> > I'm traveling on vacation and had an opportunity to update my mom's |
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> > laptop. |
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> > Being that the news about KDE5 plasma becoming standard and needing to |
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> > watch out about app updates in the future not working in KDE4 I decided |
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> > to bite the bullet and get the machine completely updated while I'm |
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> > here. Overall the update process went moderately well - emerge wouldn't |
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> > complete until I removed two packages for blocking issues, but other |
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> > than that KDE5 came up OK ad actually the new plasma stuff seems to make |
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> > things look quite nice on this machine. |
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> > One thing I was interested in doing was moving my dad's use to this same |
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> > machine so I did the normal useradd command from the install guide. |
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> > First, I don't know how it was for kdm but with sddm, with it having |
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> > pictures representing each user, sddm doesn't recognize new user |
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> > accounts without being restarted. Once restarted however, my dad's name |
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> > was there, I try to log in, and the whole process goes south with a |
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> > message that plasma has died. If I hit the restart button at that point |
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> > it just does it again and doesn't offer any more options. |
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> First thing, I didn't look it up in the install guide, but did your |
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> useradd command actually create a home dir for the new user, and do they |
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> have a password, etc? Check /etc/passwd and friends (shadow, group and |
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> gshadow) to see if everything is as it should be. Also, did the |
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> "starter" files in /etc/skel/* get copied over to the new user homedirs? |
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> Assuming those basics are now verified correct, as I can imagine |
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> attempting to login as a new user when that user's homedir doesn't exist, |
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> or similar, would definitely create problems... |
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Hi Duncan, |
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Thankfully, after returning the next day, doing another eix-sync and |
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a few more packages it started working. I have no explanation at this point |
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the plasma crashes but as they no longer occur I guess for now it's 'event |
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over, |
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moving on'. |
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I appreciate your inputs. |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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