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So I got everything installed the way I want it but I did it as the root user. Now when I try to start X with the new user account I created, it will not work. I even copied all of the files from /root/ to /home/userid/ including the hidden files. It still wont work. I did moduser -d /home/userid/ userid to make sure.
When I say x wont start it just hangs when running startx. The error comes up that "Hostname: unknown host" but that comes up when I run startx as root as well.
What is the problem here? I dont want to be forced to run as root forever.
Thanks,
sdelano
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You own your home directory, right? I'm not familiar what the moduser command does, I assume it does that?
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good call...now it works
next time is there a better way to get all of the config files set up for a new user?
Thanks
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when you add a user, use the adduser script, not useradd. adduser is an interactive script included with arch to make your life easier
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