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droid

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Registered: 2007-01-21

Posts: 19

oops, XDM xfce problem

Good evening,

I just installed xfce which works fine, but when I added XDM and restarted it booted into XDM fine but I never created an user accounts before, was just using root so I do not have login to use and root does not work, any suggestions?

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

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Re: oops, XDM xfce problem

Sure,

Crtl-Alt-F1 to get to the console, log in as root, and create a user with:

useradd -m -s /bin/bash <your_user>
passwd <your_user>
gpasswd -a <your_user> whatever groups you want your user to be in (one by one)

Last edited by skottish (2008-02-10 19:37:56)

droid

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Registered: 2007-01-21

Posts: 19

Re: oops, XDM xfce problem

Thank you for the reply, I added a user and when I login, I do not get an error just returned straight to the login page

Gluffs

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Registered: 2008-01-25

Posts: 25

Re: oops, XDM xfce problem

Hi.

I had the same problem only difference was that i used slim instead. but it appears to be a bug in pacman permissions. It worked after this

chmod 777 /tmp && chmod a+x /tmp

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