Re: Gnome3 login failure
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:58:04 +0000 (UTC)
Simon Pepping <spepping@leverkruid.eu> wrote:
> Jon Dowland <jmtd <at> debian.org> writes:
>
> >
> > On 24/01/12 14:56, Richard wrote:
> > > Out of the blue, when I try to login to the shell I get after a few second
> that dreaded something has
> > > gone wrong message and to logout.
> > > Is Gnome3 similar in behaviour to Gnome2 that removing the .gnome files
> > > will
> cause them to be recreated
> > > on login ?
> > > Or any other ideas ???
> >
> > Can you use the "GNOME classic" session?
> >
> > Can a freshly-created test user use the normal "GNOME" session?
> >
> Me too. I fixed it by editing /etc/profile. It seems that one of the commands
> did not complete successfully. When I disabled it, I could login successfully
> again. Normal logins did not suffer from this problem.
>
> Simon
>
>
>
Thanks Simon
I make a note of that, for future reference, I 've seen that a few times now.
My fix to the problem is messy,
ie
rename home directory
remove user
add user
move wanted directories into new user from renamed directory.
There doesn't seem to be a command to delete a user from CLI ?
--
Best wishes / 73
Richard Bown
e-mail: richard@g8jvm.com or richard.bown@blueyonder.co.uk
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