Again, did you copy your /home from a previous system or is it a new configuration that locked your panels?
> UTC Time: July 9, 2017 12:54 PM > From: 70147pers...@telia.com > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Thank you all for thoughts and viewpoints on what can be wrong in my > installation of Debian 9. I have looked through places I might expect > can contain some explanation, but so far I have not been able to exclaim > an "Ah, that"s it!". Here are some of my observations: > * First source of install: Well, I do know I wrote that used the live > image, but to be honest, for now I am not sure, I do not remember. I had > downloaded the live image as well as the install image, and most > probable choice would be the later. But I do not know. Anyway the > install process itself went without any problems. > * At the install I made it fully new from the bottom. The only directory > I kept unchanged was my home directory. This is situated on an own > partition. All the others were reformatted: /, /boot, /usr, /var and > /tmp. All these are on individual partitions while e.g. /etc is > contained in the root partition. At earlier installations I have noticed > that the home directory can contain wrong configuration files, so as a > test I moved all hidden files i.e. files starting with a dot to a new > created directory "hidden". This was however after the install. So at a > subsequent cold start the system had no configuration files there but > created new ones with default values. This however had no positive > impact on my problem. > * Configuring sudo? No I have not done that explicitly, not more than > what the install program did itself. I have looked at /etc/sudoers and > what I think the important lines are: > # User privilege specification > root ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL > # Allow members of group sudo to execute any command > %sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL > #includedir /etc/sudoers.d > In /etc/sudoers.d there are no more files than README. > There is no /etc/sudo.conf file. > * Regarding access to my user directory: During my search I did in fact > find some files and directories owned by user root or group root. These > are changed to be owned by my user id and group id, but this did not > help. By the way, On this computer I have always had just one user, > mine, and hence got the user id 1000 and group id 1000. This is the case > now too. > uid 1000 is a member of the sudo group. > * As I wrote I have always used this method of not setting any password > to the root account, and this is for quite many years now. My Linux path > has gone via Ubuntu, well to be honest a couple of years after the > Microsoft era I ran in Suse, but was not fully satisfied. And when > Ubuntu and Canonical introduced Unity, I left that ship for Linux Mint > Debian edition (LMDE) until I took the last(?) step into Debian a couple > of years ago where the entrance point was jessie. The empty root > password has always worked fine until now. Possibly Ubuntu has patched > the sudologin but should LMDE? And jessie? I do not think so. > Hope someone can find something significant in this and give a hint on > what to do. > Kaj
