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Cinolt

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Registered: 2010-12-04

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[GNOME] users-admin doesn't work at all

GNOME 2.23.1
gnome-system-tools 2.32.0-1
dbus 1.4.0-1
gksu 2.0.2-2
I've read around the forums that problems with gnome-system-tools in general were quite common, and I have a similar problem. For instance in users-admin clicking the "Add" or "Delete" button does nothing. If I run sudo users-admin, gksu users-admin, or gksudo users-admin, it results in the window coming up but greyed out, and I can't even close out of it.

Almost all of the solutions I've read were to add my user to the stb-admin group and add stbd to the Daemons. It turns out that the stb-admin group doesn't exist for me, and even if I created it I don't have /etc/rc.d/stbd, and pacman -Ss stb comes up with nothing.

Anybody else facing a similar problem?

Last edited by Cinolt (2010-12-06 21:57:14)

defears

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Registered: 2010-07-26

Posts: 218

Re: [GNOME] users-admin doesn't work at all

Yeah, I never got it to create a new user either. But everything else works. Open up a root terminal and type adduser like in the install. Then the groups, sharing and password things work fine.

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

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Re: [GNOME] users-admin doesn't work at all

running with sudo those commands is not the right solution.

gnome-system-tools has consolekit support and it would ask for root when is required.
solutions:
1) use gdm
2) exec ck-launch-session gnome-session in ~/.xinitrc if you use startx to start the gnome session

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