Re: [PLUG] Help starting X and Gnome in Slackware 8.0

[John Beck <jbeck@jbwd.net>]

Thanks for the help everyone!  I got it working thanks to everyone's help, and here is what I found...

Editing the /etc/passwd file did work.  As for chown, I used the syntax:  chown jbeck: /home/jbeck ,
and that worked as well.

Then, I figured out about the adduser script, which as was pointed out below, seems to be a much
better alternative then doing what I did, even though it worked, so I undid the changes I made, and
used adduser to create my user, complete with home directory and all!

Thanks again for everyone's help!

Now, is anyone ready to explain how to install ALSA sound card drivers in Slackware...?!


fintler wrote:

> Le Samedi 14 Juillet 2001 04:32, vous (John Beck) avez écrit :
> >> I need some help getting X to start in my user account. I just installed
> >> Slackware 8.0, with Gnome 1.4. It boots to a command
> >>  prompt, which is fine, so I log in as root and type: startx
> >>
> >>  Everything starts fine and works without a problem. Gnome 1.4 is great!
> >> Now, I added a user by doing: useradd jbeck Next, I set my
> >>  password: passwd jbeck
> >>
> >>  Now I go to log in, and everything is fine, except that it says it can't
> >> find a home directory, so it is using /home. I wasn't quite sure
> >>  how to make my default directory be something like /home/jbeck ?
> >>
> >>  Next, I typed startx at the command prompt, and I got a few messages,
> >> which includes:
> >>  Xauth: timeout in locking authority files //.Xauthority
> >>  Xauth: timeout in locking authority files //.Xauthority
> >>  Xauth: timeout in locking authority files //.Xauthority
> >>
> >>  Followed by a bunch of stuff that scrolled past me, and then:
> >>
> >>  cat://Xauthority: no such file or directory
> >>  Gnome-ERROR **: Could not create per-user Gnome Directory <./gnome> -
> >> aborting
> >>
> >>  Can anyone please help with specific directions on how to finish setting
> >> up my user directory to default to /home/jbeck instead of just
> >>  /home, and how to get X and Gnome to start?  As you can tell, I am a
> >> newbie, so please try not to make many assumptions to my knowledge, other
> >> than my ability to follow your directions!  :-)
> >>
> >>  Thanks for your help!
> >>
> >>  John
> >
> >well, as root edit /etc/passwd and find your name, replace /home (or if there is no home entry,
> it >should be the sixth entry (entries are seperated by :'s)(at least it's the sixth in mandrake,
> don't >know if that will change between distros)) with /home/jbeck - and make sure /home/jbeck
> exists, if >not:as root- mkdir /home/jbeck
> >chown jbeck:jbeck /home/jbeck
> >
> >this should do the trick (for X as well, without really thinking about it i'm assuming at least
> that >your X problem is because you don't have permissions to write to /home)
> >
> >--qumak(james)
> >
> >p.s. - sorry about my rancid incoherency, it's late and i'd like to blame it on that ;)
>
> Alright, lemme clear this up. First off slackware 8 uses shadow passwds, editing /etc/passwd just
> makes the problem harder to find. Use 'vipw' to safely edit the shadow file along with the normal
> /etc/passwd file. Also, slackware has a nifty utility called 'adduser' (useradd's non-evil twin)
> that walks you through the steps in making an account.
>
> chown apparently has a different syntax than that in slackware, so it would be 'chown jbeck.jbeck
> /home/jbeck' instead of 'chown jbeck:jbeck /home/jbeck'. Although the ':' way may work, I've never
> used it....I know for sure that the '.' works.
>
> -Jon (jb@10v.org)
>
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