First, thank you for the fast response.
> Did you change dclarke's UID between (2) and (3) by any chance? Actually I have created and destroyed a few users accounts over and over and yes, I sometimes used the same uid and sometimes not. I may have created my own problems here. > Anyway, it looks like you've got stale gconf and/or ORBit files in > /var/tmp. Best thing to do is: > > 1) make sure you kill all gconfd-2 processes reboot ... thats a sure fire way. I _hate_ doing that MS method with Solaris however. :-) > 2) log in as root on the console and rm -rf /var/tmp/*-dclarke Actually .. that area was poluted with lots of crud. I'll delete everything that seems to be trash. > > Yes, this is broken and it was discussed on desktop-discuss in this > thread: > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/2006-August/001656.html > Thanks ... let me give this a try right now ... # ls -lap total 22 drwxrwxrwt 8 root sys 512 Sep 9 21:37 ./ drwxr-xr-x 43 root sys 1024 Sep 1 23:37 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 100 csw 145 Sep 8 23:11 brlog drwx------ 2 100 csw 512 Sep 3 20:35 gconfd-dclarke/ drwx------ 2 root root 512 Aug 31 13:56 gconfd-root/ drwx------ 2 dclarke csw 512 Sep 9 20:18 keyring-HVaGZx/ srwxr-xr-x 1 100 csw 0 Sep 3 20:16 mapping-dclarke drwx------ 2 100 csw 1536 Sep 3 20:35 orbit-dclarke/ drwx------ 2 dclarke csw 512 Sep 9 21:23 orbit-dclarke-e8a82828/ drwx------ 2 root root 512 Aug 31 13:56 orbit-root/ -rw------- 1 root root 332 Sep 9 21:34 wscon-:0-PqaOEx # rm -rf brlog gconfd-dclarke gconfd-root mapping-dclarke orbit* # ls -lap total 8 drwxrwxrwt 3 root sys 512 Sep 9 21:55 ./ drwxr-xr-x 43 root sys 1024 Sep 1 23:37 ../ drwx------ 2 dclarke csw 512 Sep 9 20:18 keyring-HVaGZx/ -rw------- 1 root root 332 Sep 9 21:34 wscon-:0-PqaOEx # ls -lap total 8 drwxrwxrwt 3 root sys 512 Sep 9 21:55 ./ drwxr-xr-x 43 root sys 1024 Sep 1 23:37 ../ drwx------ 2 dclarke csw 512 Sep 9 20:18 keyring-HVaGZx/ -rw------- 1 root root 332 Sep 9 21:34 wscon-:0-PqaOEx # okay .. now then .. let's try a totally new user account again # userdel -r dclarke # useradd -c "Dennis Clarke" -d /export/home/dclarke -e "" -f 0 -g csw \ > -m -s /sbin/sh -u 411 dclarke 64 blocks # passwd dclarke New Password: Re-enter new Password: passwd: password successfully changed for dclarke # # # ls -lap /export/home/ total 24 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 512 Sep 9 21:37 ./ drwxr-xr-x 5 root sys 512 Sep 2 02:06 ../ drwxr-xr-x 2 admin csw 512 Sep 9 21:33 admin/ drwxr-xr-x 2 dclarke csw 512 Sep 9 21:37 dclarke/ drwx------ 2 root root 8192 Aug 31 04:12 lost+found/ okay ... logging in as dclarke via the GDM/DTLogin thing. tick tock ... Looks better already :-) Dennis _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
