On 2018-12-20 4:36 p.m., Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 12/20/18 8:09 AM, Frank McCormick wrote:
I am running Fedora 29 with the Mate desktop. This morning I tried
creating a
new user to check out a problem. After logging out and logging in again
with the new users name and password, I was presented with a blank
screen
with just the mouse cursor visible.
It sounds like Mate isn't starting for some reason. Did you check the
logs?
Not only did Mate not start, I could not find a way out other than
killing the power.
Nothing in all the logs I could read, but .xsession-errors had an entry
reading something
like "environment could not be loaded". I have since deleted that
user, and created another which works fine. The only difference was
allowing the GUI to
create a user group the same as the user name. The user was named guest,
and it created
a group called guest and made the user part of it.
I checked the new users directory after logging in with my regular
account, and there are just a few sub directories but I noticed that
there was no /Desktop. no /Pictures etc.
Those are created by the desktop environment.
That's what I suspected, and I guess to be expected if Mate couldn't load
the proper environment.
It's a mystery to me why the second attempt was sucessfull while the first
wasn't.
A related question: how do I set up Fedora to allow the alt-sysreq REISUB
to kill the session? And I also thought alt-ctrl-backspace killed the
xserver. It
doesn't for me.
Still finding my way around Fedora after having been gone for a year or two.
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