On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 12:04:34 -0800, Richard E Miles <r.godzilla@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am a Linux Newbie just trying to learn my way around. > > > > I just installed Fedora Core 3 on an Intel Pentium III 1 GHz PC that > > also runs Windows 2000. I went with the reiserfs. <SNIP> > > asked to create a user so I typed in the information. When I went to > > run Linux again the user name and pw were not accepted so I logged in > > as root. When I looked at the user list (in User Manager) it was > > empty. Now here is the strange thing. I add the user jim and input > > a pw in the Create New User gui. When I click on OK the hour glass > > just keeps going and going and going ... . I have left the house and > > come back over two hours later and the new user is still not created! > > > > What am I missing here? Where should I start to look? Obviously I > > do not want to keep running Linux as root. I would appreciate your Just a stab in the dark- When you installed FC3 was selinux enabled (the default)?- if so the last I heard was that reiserfs won't play nice w/ selinux since it does not support some file attributes that selinux requires. Have a look at this file: /etc/selinux/config (as root) Mine looks like: # This file controls the state of SELinux on the system. # SELINUX= can take one of these three values: # enforcing - SELinux security policy is enforced. # permissive - SELinux prints warnings instead of enforcing. # disabled - SELinux is fully disabled. SELINUX=enforcing # SELINUXTYPE= type of policy in use. Possible values are: # targeted - Only targeted network daemons are protected. # strict - Full SELinux protection. SELINUXTYPE=targeted If yours looks like that change SELINUX=enforcing to: SELINUX=disabled You may also need to change SELINUXTYPE=targeted to: #SELINUX=disabled save the file, reboot & see if you can add users. -- Bests, Jon
