After moving from F37 to F36 and re-installing a user directory (with dot files) I discover that login for that user fails. No messages in /var/log, no error message.
I assume that the problem is somewhere in one of the dot files. Any suggestions?
Thanks.
On 22 Feb 2023, at 17:19, Geoffrey Leach geoffleach.gl@gmail.com wrote:
After moving from F37 to F36 and re-installing a user directory (with dot files) I discover that login for that user fails. No messages in /var/log, no error message.
I assume that the problem is somewhere in one of the dot files. Any suggestions?
Look in the journal with journalctl. You will find nothing in /var/log unless you set it up.
Also you can try doing this:
As root: su - username
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Thanks. That's half of the problem. Now, what about starting xterm from ~user?
On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 9:25 AM Barry barry@barrys-emacs.org wrote:
On 22 Feb 2023, at 17:19, Geoffrey Leach geoffleach.gl@gmail.com
wrote:
After moving from F37 to F36 and re-installing a user directory (with
dot files) I discover that login for that user fails. No messages in /var/log, no error message.
I assume that the problem is somewhere in one of the dot files. Any
suggestions?
Look in the journal with journalctl. You will find nothing in /var/log unless you set it up.
Also you can try doing this:
As root: su - username
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That would surely be foolish, no?
On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 3:18 PM Barry barry@barrys-emacs.org wrote:
On 22 Feb 2023, at 19:25, Geoffrey Leach geoffleach.gl@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks. That's half of the problem. Now, what about starting xterm from ~user?
Please post under not above what you are commenting on.
Are you saying that you do not have a GUI desktop installed and configured to alliw you to login?
Barry
On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 9:25 AM Barry barry@barrys-emacs.org wrote:
On 22 Feb 2023, at 17:19, Geoffrey Leach geoffleach.gl@gmail.com
wrote:
After moving from F37 to F36 and re-installing a user directory (with
dot files) I discover that login for that user fails. No messages in /var/log, no error message.
I assume that the problem is somewhere in one of the dot files. Any
suggestions?
Look in the journal with journalctl. You will find nothing in /var/log unless you set it up.
Also you can try doing this:
As root: su - username
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Since reply formating has been brought up: I've noticed that even boilerplate often does not get trimmed. 'Tain't unique to this thread. 'Tis close to universal. The result is scrolling through multiple copies of boilerplate to get to the bottom and discover, lo and behold, more boilerplate, I hadn't missed anything.
On 2/22/23 3:50 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
That would surely be foolish, no?
Not at all,
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines#If_You_Are_Replying_t...
On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 10:40 PM Joe Zeff joe@zeff.us wrote:
On 2/22/23 16:17, Barry wrote:
Please post under not above what you are commenting on.
And while you're at it, trim out the parts of the post you're responding to that aren't relevant, like the boilerplate at the bottom.
Also, Geoffrey: plain text, *please*. I had to hop into my web client just to read what you said. HTML email isn't something a lot of our email clients are set up to handle, and for good reason.
-- Slade
On Wed, 2023-02-22 at 23:17 +0000, Barry wrote:
[...]
Please don't post in HTML, or at least include a plaintext alternative:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines#No_HTML_Mail,_Please
poc
On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 12:19 PM Geoffrey Leach geoffleach.gl@gmail.com wrote:
After moving from F37 to F36 and re-installing a user directory (with dot files) I discover that login for that user fails. No messages in /var/log, no error message.
If you overwrote files like /etc/password, /etc/shadow and /etc/groups, then you probably nuked the user.
Did you overwrite the files when you reinstalled the OS?
Jeff
No. Just ~user
On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 9:54 AM Jeffrey Walton noloader@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 12:19 PM Geoffrey Leach geoffleach.gl@gmail.com wrote:
After moving from F37 to F36 and re-installing a user directory (with
dot files) I discover that login for that user fails. No messages in /var/log, no error message.
If you overwrote files like /etc/password, /etc/shadow and /etc/groups, then you probably nuked the user.
Did you overwrite the files when you reinstalled the OS?
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After moving from F37 to F36 and re-installing a user directory (with dot files) I discover that login for that user fails. No messages in /var/log, no error message.
I assume that the problem is somewhere in one of the dot files. Any suggestions?
Thanks.
do the user rights and ownership under /home/<your-user> match ?
On Sun, 26 Feb 2023 17:11:43 -0000 "old sixpack13" sixpack13@online.de wrote:
After moving from F37 to F36 and re-installing a user directory (with dot files) I discover that login for that user fails. No messages in /var/log, no error message.
I assume that the problem is somewhere in one of the dot files. Any suggestions?
Thanks.
do the user rights and ownership under /home/<your-user> match ?
Yes. Turns out (for me) that rebooting on every step of the process resulted in a successful installation.