[SOLVED] Gnome user disappeared

SilverOne · 2013-10-16 21:49:21

After updating the other day, my username disapeared from both the gnome log on screen and the users settings page. I've tried creating a new user, and it does indeed appear. However my administrator account does not appear.

[2013-10-15 22:15] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Syu'
[2013-10-15 22:15] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
[2013-10-15 22:15] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
[2013-10-15 22:16] [PACMAN] upgraded librsvg (1:2.39.0-2 -> 1:2.40.0-1)
[2013-10-15 22:16] [PACMAN] upgraded aisleriot (3.10.0-1 -> 3.10.1-1)
[2013-10-15 22:16] [PACMAN] upgraded baobab (3.10-1 -> 3.10.1-1)
[2013-10-15 22:16] [PACMAN] upgraded gnome-desktop (1:3.10.0-1 -> 1:3.10.1-1)
[2013-10-15 22:16] [PACMAN] upgraded eog (3.10.0-1 -> 3.10.1-1)
[2013-10-15 22:16] [PACMAN] upgraded glib-networking (2.38.0-1 -> 2.38.1-1)
[2013-10-15 22:16] [PACMAN] upgraded libsoup (2.44.0-1 -> 2.44.1-1)
[2013-10-15 22:16] [PACMAN] upgraded epiphany (3.10.0-2 -> 3.10.1-1)
[2013-10-15 22:16] [PACMAN] upgraded file-roller (3.10.0-2 -> 3.10.1-1)
[2013-10-15 22:16] [PACMAN] upgraded git (1.8.4-1 -> 1.8.4.1-1)
[2013-10-15 22:16] [PACMAN] upgraded libgweather (3.10.0-1 -> 3.10.1-1)
[2013-10-15 22:16] [PACMAN] upgraded gnome-clocks (3.10.0-1 -> 3.10.1-1)
[2013-10-15 22:16] [PACMAN] upgraded gnome-online-accounts (3.10.0-1 -> 3.10.1-1)
[2013-10-15 22:16] [PACMAN] upgraded gnome-contacts (3.10-1 -> 3.10.1-1)
[2013-10-15 22:16] [PACMAN] upgraded gnome-mahjongg (3.10.0-1 -> 3.10.1-1)
[2013-10-15 22:16] [PACMAN] upgraded gnome-menus (3.10.0-1 -> 3.10.1-1)
[2013-10-15 22:16] [PACMAN] upgraded gnome-music (3.10.1-1 -> 3.10.1-2)
[2013-10-15 22:16] [PACMAN] upgraded gnome-system-monitor (3.10.0-1 -> 3.10.1-1)
[2013-10-15 22:16] [PACMAN] upgraded vte-common (0.34.8-1 -> 0.34.9-1)
[2013-10-15 22:16] [PACMAN] upgraded vte3 (0.34.8-1 -> 0.34.9-1)
[2013-10-15 22:16] [PACMAN] upgraded gnome-terminal (3.10.0-2 -> 3.10.1-1)
[2013-10-15 22:17] [PACMAN] upgraded gnome-tetravex (3.10.0-1 -> 3.10.1-1)
[2013-10-15 22:17] [PACMAN] upgraded gnome-weather (3.10.0-1 -> 3.10.1-1)
[2013-10-15 22:17] [PACMAN] upgraded gucharmap (3.9.99-1 -> 3.10.0-1)
[2013-10-15 22:17] [PACMAN] upgraded lightsoff (3.10.0-1 -> 3.10.1-1)
[2013-10-15 22:17] [PACMAN] upgraded yelp-xsl (3.10.0-1 -> 3.10.1-1)
[2013-10-15 22:17] [PACMAN] upgraded yelp (3.10.0-1 -> 3.10.1-1)
[2013-10-15 22:33] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Syu'
[2013-10-15 22:33] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
[2013-10-15 22:33] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
[2013-10-15 22:33] [PACMAN] upgraded libarchive (3.1.2-2 -> 3.1.2-3)
[2013-10-16 02:07] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Syu'
[2013-10-16 02:07] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
[2013-10-16 02:07] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
[2013-10-16 02:08] [PACMAN] upgraded accountsservice (0.6.34-2 -> 0.6.35-1)
[2013-10-16 02:08] [PACMAN] upgraded gnome-backgrounds (3.10.0-1 -> 3.10.1-1)
[2013-10-16 02:08] [PACMAN] upgraded gsettings-desktop-schemas (3.10.0-1 -> 3.10.1-1)
[2013-10-16 02:08] [PACMAN] upgraded gnome-settings-daemon (3.10.0-1 -> 3.10.1-1)
[2013-10-16 02:08] [PACMAN] upgraded gtk3 (3.10.1-1 -> 3.10.1-2)
[2013-10-16 02:08] [PACMAN] installed libgnomekbd (3.6.0-1)
[2013-10-16 02:08] [PACMAN] upgraded gnome-control-center (3.10.0-1 -> 3.10.1-1)
[2013-10-16 02:08] [PACMAN] upgraded mutter (3.10.0.1-1 -> 3.10.1.1-1)
[2013-10-16 02:08] [PACMAN] upgraded mutter-wayland (3.10.0.1-2 -> 3.10.1-1)
[2013-10-16 02:08] [PACMAN] upgraded gnome-shell (3.10.0.1-1 -> 3.10.1-1)
[2013-10-16 02:08] [PACMAN] upgraded gnome-shell-extensions (3.10.0-1 -> 3.10.1-1)

i have tried re installing gnome. but with no success. It is weird that this shows up in both gdm and gnome user settings.

Last edited by SilverOne (2013-10-25 01:24:09)

cfr · 2013-10-17 01:37:28

Can you login OK from a tty?

SilverOne · 2013-10-17 01:54:08

cfr wrote:

Can you login OK from a tty?

Hi, thank you for your response.

yes i can login through a tty, i can login through gdm too if i click the *not listed?* letters and manually type in my username.

my account is missing from the Users settings and the login screen:
http://d.pr/i/NGp0

if i create a user, however, it'll show up on the login screen and on the Users settings.

im just afraid this might lead to some random behavior in the future.

what i have tried so far:

user id was 501, users with an id < than 1000 will not show up on login screen. I changed the user id:

uid=1000(silverone) gid=100(users) groups=100(users),7(lp),10(wheel),91(video),92(audio),93(optical),95(storage),96(scanner),98(power),1000(lpadmin

checked /etc/login.defs

# Min/max values for automatic uid selection in useradd
#
UID_MIN			 1000
UID_MAX			60000
# System accounts
SYS_UID_MIN		  500
SYS_UID_MAX		  999

edited /etc/gdm/custom.conf and appended IncludeAll=true below [greeter]

Last edited by SilverOne (2013-10-17 02:24:17)

cfr · 2013-10-17 02:45:41

Is the ownership etc. on your hone directory still correct? How exactly did you change the uid?

You shouldn't be in all those groups by the way - see the systemd page for info on which groups are now unneeded and may cause problems.

SilverOne · 2013-10-17 03:07:05

Hi again,

per your instructions i removed the unnecessary groups, thanks.

[silverone@silver-arch ~]$ id
uid=1000(silverone) gid=1000(silverone) groups=1000(silverone),10(wheel)
[silverone@silver-arch ~]$ cd ..
[silverone@silver-arch home]$ ls -l
total 8
drwx------  16 admin     admin     4096 Oct 17 04:02 admin
drwx------+ 51 silverone silverone 4096 Oct 17 04:02 silverone

i changed the userid by opening a tty under root and using: usermod -u 1000 silverone

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at this point, i'm considering removing the user "silverone" without deleting the home folder, then using admin to create a new user "silverone" through gnome settings.

Last edited by SilverOne (2013-10-17 03:10:17)

cfr · 2013-10-17 21:07:31

You didn't need to remove yourself from the users group, but still. What does

getfacl /home/silverone

give you? That + means there's more information there.

dfpalacioh · 2013-10-17 21:48:45

Hi,
I have the same issue. Right now I don't want to create a new user, so I did "getfacl /home/user", this is the result:

[diego@DiegosPC ~]$ getfacl /home/diego
getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
# file: home/diego
# owner: diego
# group: users
user::rwx
group::---
other::---

Thank you in advance.

SilverOne · 2013-10-17 22:31:27

I unfortunately gave up on this issue, and just recreated my user without deleting the home folder. And it did work. Unfortunately it gave me a uid of 1002 instead of 1000 and i suspect gnome couldnt read/write to the home folder and failed to log in every time. Having failed to notice this, i just deleted the home folder.

i believe that if one were to repeat what i did, but make sure the UID is the same, would have his problem fixed. However, you might want to wait for further input.

Last edited by SilverOne (2013-10-17 22:33:39)

cfr · 2013-10-17 22:37:17

@dfpalacioh,
I assume you don't get the + when you do this listing, then? That looks entirely standard to me - i.e. nothing in the ACL over and above standard ownership and permissions.

bhadotia · 2013-10-18 09:30:52

Same problem as OP. This happened after the recent gnome 3.10.1 update that came in. Things were fine with 3.10.
I dual boot with OSX on a Macbook Pro. Thus, I created my user with a UID 501.

Little more info:

[abhishek@Gauranga ~]$ id
uid=501(abhishek) gid=100(users) groups=100(users),10(wheel)

ls -la /home/
total 16
drwxr-xr-x  4 root     root  4096 Nov 30  2012 .
drwxr-xr-x 19 root     root  4096 Jun  4 07:59 ..
drwx------ 20 abhishek users 4096 Oct 18 14:43 abhishek
drwx------  5 root     root  4096 Nov 30  2012 kubuntu

[abhishek@Gauranga ~]$ getfacl /home/abhishek/
getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
# file: home/abhishek/
# owner: abhishek
# group: users
user::rwx
group::---
other::---

EDIT: Oh, and I removed my user from the groups video,audio,optical,games,power,lp,storage,scanner as suggested in a previous post. I am on a Sandy Bridge machine with HD3000 intel graphics.

Last edited by bhadotia (2013-10-18 09:35:00)

dfpalacioh · 2013-10-19 17:36:36

I think that I found a workaround, similar to the silverone's solution, only with an additional step.

First, I deleted my old user without delete the home folder:

userdel user

Second, I created a new user in the Gnome settings with the same name. I tried to log in but it failed. I searched and found that the problem is in the original home folder: when I deleted my old user, the owner of the home folder changed. The solution was to change the owner of the folder and the files with "chown". Right now I can log in, apparently, without any problem.

Thanks for your help.

bhadotia · 2013-10-19 18:36:32

dfpalacioh wrote:

Right now I don't want to create a new user

Well, as you have already created a new user (though with the same name), I guess I'm the only one left who doesn't want to do it .

dfpalacioh · 2013-10-20 08:04:56

Well...I thought that I had to do it all over again (with Evolution, Empathy, Steam, LibreOffice, symbolic links, passwords, etc.); but I didn't have enough patience. "Someone" said: "How poor are they that have not patience!..." .

kpiche · 2013-10-25 01:22:36

This happened to me as well. I had a UID of 500 but changing it to 1000 did not fix it. Eventually I traced it to the accountsservice files in /var/lib/AccountsService/users. My account had been marked as a system account:

SystemAccount=true

Once I fixed that then everything went back to normal.

SilverOne · 2013-10-25 01:23:49

kpiche wrote:

This happened to me as well. I had a UID of 500 but changing it to 1000 did not fix it. Eventually I traced it to the accountsservice files in /var/lib/AccountsService/users. My account had been marked as a system account:
SystemAccount=true
Once I fixed that then everything went back to normal.

hah nice i will mark this as solved!

bhadotia · 2013-10-26 10:38:13

kpiche wrote:

This happened to me as well. I had a UID of 500 but changing it to 1000 did not fix it. Eventually I traced it to the accountsservice files in /var/lib/AccountsService/users. My account had been marked as a system account:
SystemAccount=true
Once I fixed that then everything went back to normal.

To clarify it should read:

SystemAccount=false

EDIT:
Oh!, and it still does not work for me. The entry keeps reverting back to true after reboots and log out. May be it's because I haven't changed my UID and kept it as 501. I don't want to change it as then I won't be able to access my data files kept on my OSX disk.

SilverOne wrote:

hah nice wink i will mark this as solved!

May be it's better to remove the SOLVED tag for now untill we get a foolproof solution.

Last edited by bhadotia (2013-10-26 11:04:34)

mclabaut · 2014-04-16 06:29:21

The relevant bug seems this one : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … bug/459199

GDM seems to have a hard coded value of 1000…

bhadotia · 2015-05-10 12:58:44

mclabaut wrote:

The relevant bug seems this one : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … bug/459199
GDM seems to have a hard coded value of 1000…

Here is the similar bug in accountsservice for lightdm.

I'm going to switch to lightdm if they don't fix it in gdm soon..

Last edited by bhadotia (2015-05-10 13:00:04)

WorMzy · 2015-05-10 14:16:51

Please don't bump old topics, especially when they have been marked as [SOLVED].

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … bumping.22

If you're still having problems with this, feel free to open a new topic and link back to this one if it contains relevant information.

Closing.

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