Re: can´t log into my second user

[gfp]

Am 20.02.26 um 17:03 schrieb W. Knight:

I can understand the frustration.  A couple of last tests if you have not already wiped the account and are willing.

1) Verify that the issue is with the graphical login manager (gdm) logging into the account and not login in general.   Since 'sudo su -l gast' worked the only thing not checked outside of gdm is the password.  If as user gfp you run 'su -l gast' and use the gast password when prompted it should log you in.  If it works then the problem is with gdm if it doesn't then you would need to check /etc/ secure again.

yes it worked, I logged in with the password of "gast.
so the problem is with gdm.

2) If #1 worked then the issue is probably a file in the user home directory which either has the wrong ownership, permissions, or contents but the easy fix is to move the directory and let it be created fresh.

As user gfp
   cd /home     # Move to home directory
   sudo mv gast gast.broken.20260220 # Move it out of the way

I did that

   su - gast  # Most linux system create home directory on first login

gast@Tuxedo /home$ su - gast
Password:
Could not change in the directory /home/gast.
German: Es konnte nicht in das Verzeichnis »/home/gast« gewechselt werden.

   pwd; ls -al   # make sure you are in /home/gast
   exit

I was in the gast/home
so I tried

gast@Tuxedo /home$ pwd; ls -al
/home
insgesamt 40
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root   4096 21. Feb 17:47 ./
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root   4096 21. Feb 17:03 ../
drwx------ 14 gast users  4096 20. Feb 11:12 gast.broken.20260220/
drwx-----x 63 gfp  users 20480 21. Feb 17:23 gfp/

It means it didn´t create /home
even though I was in:
gast@Tuxedo /home   earlier.

I wanted already yesterday to update my packages and then my system
after downloading 4 GB it took a long time
it still wanted to build ungoogled-chromium.
I had enough and didn´t want to wait 2 hours only for that
and later may be everything was for nothing.

today again, it wanted to build ungoogled-chromium.

So I guess I have to do a guix pull again
hopefully it fetches ungoogled-chromium.



By the way
how can I in the terminal if I open a file with nano,

and want to copy something from nano,
but the lines are so long that the whole lines are not copied.
I tried several times, but it didn´t work out.
How can I then save something, when I can´t use the GUI in this user
only the terminal?

thanks

Gottfried

after the security warning I want to update everything anyway and do a system reconfigure. I don´t know what else I can use, have you got proposals, because in this account is almost nothing installed?

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