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jaibhavaya

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Registered: 2017-06-07

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GNOME 3 Issues Opening User Settings and Logging in as non-root User

Hey everyone,

I recently installed Arch with very little issue.  I then installed GNOME 3, again, seemingly with little issue.

When I installed it, I only had my root user added to the system.  I noticed that when I go into Gnome's settings and click User, the window thinks for half a second and then just closes. 

I tried adding another user via command line and when I rebooted the user was listed on the gdm login screen.  However attempting to login just keep putting me back to the login screen.

I'm not seeing any errors at all for either of these situations.  Been googlin around and haven't found anything like this, and unfortunately I haven't been able to find anything in the usual log location (/var/log).

Does anyone have any ideas for a place I can look for logs, or any ideas of how to fix this?

Thanks!

jasonwryan

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Re: GNOME 3 Issues Opening User Settings and Logging in as non-root User

Read your journal.

Moving to NC...

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HiImTye

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Re: GNOME 3 Issues Opening User Settings and Logging in as non-root User

what command did you use to add your users?
you can view your logs by looking at your journal.
can you login to an X11 gnome session using xinit, or the wayland equivalent (idk what that would be)?

Last edited by HiImTye (2017-06-07 23:13:52)

trytipARCH

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Re: GNOME 3 Issues Opening User Settings and Logging in as non-root User

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jasonwryan

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Re: GNOME 3 Issues Opening User Settings and Logging in as non-root User

could be permissions what do you get for:
find $HOME ! -user $USER -type f

That's not how you determine permissions on ~

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trytipARCH

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Re: GNOME 3 Issues Opening User Settings and Logging in as non-root User

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seth

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Re: GNOME 3 Issues Opening User Settings and Logging in as non-root User

I recently installed Arch with very little issue.
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I tried adding another user via command line

I don't know whether that will show up in the journal, but am willing to bet jasons right arm that your command will just yell an error because of the condition of $HOME

@jaibhavaya
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Us … management
Please compare that to your attempt to add a user. Notably the -m switch ...

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