On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 20:28 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > Having installed Fedora 9, I rebooted, and firstboot ran. Entered my Actual > name, then username, followed by password. After repeating password as > requested, firstboot crashed. It was late, and I'm not sure if the machine > was auto rebooted, or just locked up. Either way, when I next booted the > machine (and a lot of stuff skipped here) I ended up with a login screen, > which showed my real name, and hovering the mouse over my name said logging > in as djmons. That's ok, as it was the correct username, but entering the > password to login to Gnome just brought me back to the login screen. I use > KDE, so chose to login to KDE next, and got the following output. > > Could not start kstartupconfig4. > Check your installation > > This appears to be the result of firstboot crashing when setting up > user/password, as when I booted into runlevel 3, and tried to login as > djmons, I got the following output. > > localhost login: djmons > Password: > No directory /home/djmons > Logging in with home = "/". > > This is getting frustrating now, but su to root, and create a new user. I now > reboot, and the login screen shows one entry for my real name, and a new > entry for the new user I have created. Logging in to either Gnome, or KDE, as > the new user presents no problems, and can login to either Gnome, or KDE. > > The question is. How do I remove the original user that was partially setup > before firstboot crashed. > > If I run adduser, It says that djmons is already a user, but logging in as > djmons has no access to /home/djmons, as apparently the /home/djmons > directory does not exist. > > How do I remove djmons, as a user from the system, so that he no longer > exists? Then I can recreate the original user (djmons), and hopefully be able > to access both Gnome and KDE. > > I've never had such problems before with Fedora like this. > > Is firstboot crashing a known problem? > > Thanks for any help with this problem. > > Nigel. > If userdel does not work then one can use the brute force approach. That i, rm the entry from. passwd, shadow, group and then remove the home directory. -- ======================================================================= To err is human, but when the eraser wears out before the pencil, you're overdoing it a little. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
