problems creating a new user

[Frank McCormick]

I am running Fedora 29 with the Mate desktop. This morning I tried 
creating a

new user to check out a problem. After logging out and logging in again

with the new users name and password, I was presented with a blank screen

with just the mouse cursor visible.

I deleted that user  then created a second new user but got the

same results.

I checked the new users directory after logging in with my regular

account, and there are just a few sub directories but I noticed that

there was no /Desktop. no /Pictures etc.

Has anybody else experienced this problem ?

Any suggestions?

[Samuel Sieb]

On 12/20/18 8:09 AM, Frank McCormick wrote:
> I am running Fedora 29 with the Mate desktop. This morning I tried 
> creating a
> new user to check out a problem. After logging out and logging in again
> with the new users name and password, I was presented with a blank screen
> with just the mouse cursor visible.

It sounds like Mate isn't starting for some reason.  Did you check the logs?
> I checked the new users directory after logging in with my regular
> account, and there are just a few sub directories but I noticed that
> there was no /Desktop. no /Pictures etc.

Those are created by the desktop environment.