General :: Graphical Configuration Left By Removed User
Jan 31, 2010
I recently had a problem with one and only one user on an Ubuntu 9.10 desktop system.
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The user who installed Ubuntu eventually could not log into the desktop (Gnome) without getting a small X-term appearing in the upper left-hand corner of the screen. I have since fixed the problem by reinstalling and using frequent logouts and reboots to see if the original problem could be re-created.
Other users, most of whom were also admin who could use sudo and were created after the installing user, could log into Gnome just fine. The installing user was fully deleted and re-created (home directory) and not installed with its backed up information. This still did not fix the problem.
My question is this. What could be left behind and possibly in which files by the installing user that would still affect this user even after that user was completely removed and re-created?
The only thing I have not done on the re-installation, is I have not installed Konqueror. I have installed konsole, which installs some KDE components, and that was done the first time.
I don't want to install Konqueror and have the same problem occur again at least without a place to look, so I don't have to re-install. I did make the classic mistake of not looking in the logs, specifically xsession errors. I won't make that mistake again.
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Jan 15, 2010
I am using mint 8 for a 2 weeks, I am noob to linux but I like Mint than any other linux distro which is great alternative to windows. I have a problem regarding password reseting.
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2. I tried to change password for newly created user and root user using graphical way but it does not work.
2. I can perform administrator task using only OEM user which is default inbuilt user of mint.
How can make my laptop to ask password when mint get booted? How to change password for other users?
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Basic Hardware:
Gigabyte Motherboard GA-970A-D3P
AMD 8350 CPU (8 cores)
32 GB DDR3 RAM
120GB SSD SATA-6GB/s
750 WD Black SATA-6GB/s
I am getting "Error: No space left on device" regularly during updates or installs, but why. Here is data on the disks, filesystems, etc...
Code: Select all df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 81G 27G 50G 35% /
devtmpfs 16G 0 16G 0% /dev
tmpfs 16G 76K 16G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 16G 18M 16G 1% /run
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Seems very doubtful that inodes are the killer.I have googled and followed all the threads, and search these forums and found nothing that fits - every answer there was focused on avaiolable space and inodes..And to make the cheese even more binding, the issue has cropped up on another 8.3 system with far more disk space (larger hard drives) and lots more unused inodes
Code: Select alldf -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/dm-0 907G 6.6G 855G 1% /
udev 10M 0 10M 0% /dev
tmpfs 995M 9.2M 986M 1% /run
tmpfs 2.5G 76K 2.5G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 2.5G 0 2.5G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
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why dpkg may have trouble unpacking this package?
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Code:
mountall: mount /dev/pts [397] terminated with status 32
mountall: Filesystem could not be mounted: /dev/pts
fsck from util-linux-ng 2.16
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All happened using the graphical interface in Ubuntu. I haven't been messing around with the terminal or the rootaccount or anything like that - just tried to add a new user to the system using the graphical inteface, and now I can't even access my system.
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