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hi,

I'm trying tomake myself a new user account, but when I do I keep getting logon failures. This is what i do:

1)Open Mandrake Control Centre: System > Users

2)Add new user (name: jamie, no password, add all groups except root)
Save.

3) Reboot or logout.

4) Logon using new account 'jamie' without password. I then get the 'Logon failed message'.

I've been digging around in the message logs and found this:

Feb 16 14:40:28 localhost kde3(pam_unix)[1956]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=:0 ruser= rhost= user=jamie

I'm guessing uid stands for user ID. Funny how its 0, when it says 501 in userdrake.

Any ideas?

You will have to set a password.

ok, I set a password and it worked ok. But why is doing stuff in this account so slow?

I have gnome and the icons do not load for a very long time (5 minutes after login), and also mandrake control centre takes ages to load (up to 10 minutes, i just get 'Loading. Please wait')
Sound does not work although esd is running.

I have none of these problems using root, just other accounts.

Its not a drivers problem. Do you know of any fixes?

The first time you log in on an account, it will take some time to build all the stuff in the home directory.

I understand that it takes time to build stuff on the first login, but
this happens every time I login to the account.

No icons, no sound, long delays. (The user is part of all groups)

Any hints in the logs?

/var/log/messages
/var/log/XFree86.0.log

I'll take a look, i'll post anything i find tonight when i get back from work.

ok here we go!!!

There are no errors in XFree86.0.log

Some suspect things in 'messages'

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Feb 19 19:31:13 localhost rc.sysinit: Enabling swap space: succeeded
Feb 19 19:31:14 localhost mandrake_everytime: Building Window Manager Sessions succeeded
Feb 19 19:31:15 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth1
Feb 19 19:31:15 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth2
Feb 19 19:31:15 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth3
Feb 19 19:31:15 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth4
Feb 19 19:31:15 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth5
Feb 19 19:31:15 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth6
Feb 19 19:31:15 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth7
Feb 19 19:31:15 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth8
Feb 19 19:31:15 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth9
Feb 19 19:31:15 localhost init: Entering runlevel: 5
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Feb 19 19:31:17 localhost alsa: succeeded
Feb 19 19:31:17 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-1
Feb 19 19:31:17 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-2
Feb 19 19:31:17 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-3
Feb 19 19:31:17 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-4
Feb 19 19:31:17 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-5
Feb 19 19:31:17 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-6
Feb 19 19:31:17 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-7
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Feb 19 19:31:16 localhost kernel: ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
Feb 19 19:31:16 localhost kernel: Setting 2 in the phys_id_present_map
Feb 19 19:31:16 localhost kernel: ...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 2 ... ok.
Feb 19 19:31:16 localhost kernel: ..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=0
Feb 19 19:31:16 localhost kernel: testing the IO APIC.......................
Feb 19 19:31:16 localhost kernel:
Feb 19 19:31:16 localhost kernel: WARNING: unexpected IO-APIC, please mail
Feb 19 19:31:16 localhost kernel: to linux-smp@vger.kernel.org
Feb 19 19:31:16 localhost kernel: .................................... done.
Feb 19 19:31:16 localhost kernel: Using local APIC timer interrupts.
Feb 19 19:31:16 localhost kernel: calibrating APIC timer ...
Feb 19 19:31:16 localhost kernel: ..... CPU clock speed is 1800.0942 MHz.
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Feb 17 20:51:12 localhost xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/pcf_drakfont:unscaled (unreadable)
Feb 17 20:51:12 localhost kdm_config[1044]: Invalid option value 'All' at /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc:66
Feb 17 20:51:12 localhost apmd[985]: Charge: * * * (-1% unknown)
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first of all, its probing a lot of stuff which clearly doesn't exist. check /etc/modules.conf and comment anything you don't need.

2nd, try to follow that kdm-config error. what does the file mentioned contain on line 66? (and maybe a line before and after it)

3rd, maybe next time it'd be less painful to create users from a console. ; )

4th, maybe you can remove the ~/.kde file/folder (check your home dir...im sure there's some kind of kde rc) and hope that it rebuilds itself next time you boot.

^maybe you can just copy the file/folder from your old user if it doesnt rebuild itself.

Here are the lines from lines 65-67 in /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc

SessionTypes=GNOME,KDE,WindowMaker,IceWM,failsafe,default
ShowUsers=All
SortUsers=true

etc/modules.conf only contains the following, nothing else:

probeall usb-interface usb-uhci ehci-hcd
above snd-via8233 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-slot-0 snd-via8233

How do I creat a new user from console? I'm pretty new to all this, sorry! :newbie:

man adduser

Or the hard way ;)

vi /etc/passwd

Cheers,
Tink

yeah, just "adduser" in the console (i dont remember if adduser prompts for password: if not just "su user" run "passwd"), login as the new user and try to run kde. It will hopefully do its thing. ; )

<sigh> I've added a new user from the console, but still i get the same problem. I have no idea whats wrong. I'm close to giving up now!!!:cry:

I thought 'drake was supposed to be easy. :confused:

You could try a script I found on the internet. Copy this file and save it as newuser.sh

Code:

#!/bin/bash

#

# newuser.sh <username> [<group1> [[<group2>] ....<groupn>]]

# this script will choose /bin/bash as user's shell,

# will create primary user group with the same name,

# will create a home folder

# and will add this user to the list of additional groups:

# <group1> ....<groupn>

#

USERADD=/usr/sbin/useradd

GROUPADD=/usr/sbin/groupadd

SHELL=/bin/bash



user=${1}

group=${1}

shift

ag= #additional groups



for grp in ${@}; do

[ -z ${ag} ] && \

ag=${grp} || \

ag=${ag},${grp}

done



# create a primary group with name equal to username

${GROUPADD} ${group}

if [ ${?} -eq 0 ]; then

if [ ! -z ${ag} ]; then

${USERADD} -m -g ${group} -G ${ag} -s ${SHELL} ${user}

else

${USERADD} -m -g ${group} -s ${SHELL} ${user}

fi

fi

Now, open an x terminal and command

Code:

[phil@fancypiper phil]$ su -

Password: 

[root@fancypiper root]# chmod 755 /path/to/newuser.sh

[root@fancypiper root]#  /path/to/newuser.sh

Of course, if you are root, skip the su -.
Follow the prompts and see if that works.

Mandrake also has a utility called linuxconf you could try as well.

# Mandrake links
Mandrake home page
Mandrake Users website
Easy software management: Red Carpet
Maximum RPM
rpmfind

no one mentioned this before (i dont think):
did you also check ~/.xsession-errors for errors?