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

[qumak <qumak@home.com>]

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 ;)


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