As many of you are aware I have been fighting an issue with gdm, currently I am at the point where I could not login to gdm using my normal user account, but I can login using the root account. I found the same issue in the forums http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-358052-highlight-gdm.html. I can create new user accounts that work correctly (I can log in and get to the gnome desktop). However I have deleted my old normal user account, after making a backup, then I recreated the old account using useradd -d /home/george -G users,wheel,gdm,floppy,audio,cdrom,games,cdrw -m george. Now when I attempt to login to that account I am getting cascading errors and when I reach the "desktop" it is a black screen with computer and trash as the only icons and not toolbars. I can right click on the desktop and get the normal menu to get out of that account. I have checked the permissions of both accounts [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home $ ls -l george total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 george users 48 Jul 25 12:12 Desktop [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home $
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /home $ ls -l geo total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 geo users 48 Jul 25 11:38 Desktop [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home $ so I know that is not the issue here. My question now is am I missing something here or is my computer on drugs and I need to find work arounds to get the information from my old account backups to this account? Any thoughts or pointers on this will greatly appricietated. Thanks in advance. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
