Re: problems creating a new user

[Frank McCormick]

On 2018-12-20 4:36 p.m., Samuel Sieb wrote:
> 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?

Not only did Mate not start, I could not find a way out other than 
killing the power.

Nothing in all the logs I could read, but .xsession-errors had an entry 
reading something

like "environment could not be loaded". I have since deleted that

user, and created another which works fine. The only difference was 
allowing the GUI to

create a user group the same as the user name. The user was named guest, 
and it created

a group called guest and made the user part of it.
> > 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.

That's what I suspected, and I guess to be expected if Mate couldn't load

the proper environment.

It's a mystery to me why the second attempt was sucessfull while the first

wasn't.

A related question: how do I set up Fedora to allow the alt-sysreq REISUB

to kill the session? And I also thought alt-ctrl-backspace killed the 
xserver. It

doesn't for me.

Still finding my way around Fedora after having been gone for a year or two.
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problems creating a new user

[Tom Horsley]

Are you using the nvidia binary drivers? On my system at
work attempting to exit X (which logging out apparently
does) sometimes seems to crash my system (perhaps 10%
of the time). I stick with nvidia though because the
nouveau drivers crash in the middle of sessions, not waiting
for me to log out :-).

problems creating a new user

[Samuel Sieb]

On 12/20/18 3:36 PM, Frank McCormick wrote:
> A related question: how do I set up Fedora to allow the alt-sysreq REISUB
> to kill the session? And I also thought alt-ctrl-backspace killed the

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Sysrq
> xserver. It > doesn't for me.

ctrl-alt-backspace needs to be enabled as well.  Gnome appears to have a 
setting to turn it on, but I've used the following snippet to enable it 
across desktop environments:
# cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-zap.conf
Section "ServerFlags"
         Option "DontZap" "false"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
     Identifier      "Keyboard Defaults"
     MatchIsKeyboard "yes"
     Option          "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
EndSection