On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 1:58 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > > Mark Knecht posted on Fri, 08 Apr 2016 10:18:58 -0700 as excerpted: > > > I'm traveling on vacation and had an opportunity to update my mom's > > laptop. > > Being that the news about KDE5 plasma becoming standard and needing to > > watch out about app updates in the future not working in KDE4 I decided > > to bite the bullet and get the machine completely updated while I'm > > here. Overall the update process went moderately well - emerge wouldn't > > complete until I removed two packages for blocking issues, but other > > than that KDE5 came up OK ad actually the new plasma stuff seems to make > > things look quite nice on this machine. > > > > One thing I was interested in doing was moving my dad's use to this same > > machine so I did the normal useradd command from the install guide. > > First, I don't know how it was for kdm but with sddm, with it having > > pictures representing each user, sddm doesn't recognize new user > > accounts without being restarted. Once restarted however, my dad's name > > was there, I try to log in, and the whole process goes south with a > > message that plasma has died. If I hit the restart button at that point > > it just does it again and doesn't offer any more options. > > First thing, I didn't look it up in the install guide, but did your > useradd command actually create a home dir for the new user, and do they > have a password, etc? Check /etc/passwd and friends (shadow, group and > gshadow) to see if everything is as it should be. Also, did the > "starter" files in /etc/skel/* get copied over to the new user homedirs? > > Assuming those basics are now verified correct, as I can imagine > attempting to login as a new user when that user's homedir doesn't exist, > or similar, would definitely create problems...
Hi Duncan, Thankfully, after returning the next day, doing another eix-sync and building a few more packages it started working. I have no explanation at this point for the plasma crashes but as they no longer occur I guess for now it's 'event over, moving on'. I appreciate your inputs. Cheers, Mark
