CEntOS 7 keep asking to create user

tama_pakpahan · 01-02-2018, 09:54 AM

Hi,
I have CEntOS7 as one of my vm. Lately I noticed everytime I finish boot the machine it always request to create/add new user

. I have Gnome/Gnome Classic desktop environment only.
Any clue where I can start to investigate?

Thank you in advance.

pan64 · 01-02-2018, 09:57 AM

would be nice to give us more detais: is this a graphical message? what is the exact content of that message?
you can check /var/log for additional info.

yoctobe · 01-02-2018, 09:58 AM

Check in /var/log/secure for messages telling you why

tama_pakpahan · 01-02-2018, 10:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by yoctobe

Check in /var/log/secure for messages telling you why

This is what I found in /var/log/secure-20180102

Code:

Jan  2 10:40:14 kl-005205-vm01 polkitd[753]: /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/49-polkit-pkla-compat.rules:21: Error: Error spawning helper: Timed out after 10 seconds (g-io-error-quark, 24)
Jan  2 10:40:14 kl-005205-vm01 polkitd[753]: Error evaluating authorization rules
Jan  2 11:00:13 kl-005205-vm01 polkitd[753]: /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/49-polkit-pkla-compat.rules:21: Error: Error spawning helper: Timed out after 10 seconds (g-io-error-quark, 24)
Jan  2 11:00:13 kl-005205-vm01 polkitd[753]: Error evaluating authorization rules

tama_pakpahan · 01-02-2018, 10:15 AM

Guys,
I just cleared all the logs in /var/log. Just simply removed with "rm -Rf" as root, and I restarted, and I get the machine back to normal. I can login to any available user after boot.
I really don't know why this happened. Anyway thanks a lot guys.

pan64 · 01-03-2018, 02:12 AM

probably a disk full?

voleg · 01-06-2018, 05:52 AM

Remove package named similar to "firstboot", do not remember the exact name.