On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 23:26 -0500, Don Flinn wrote: > The other week I was trying to remove OpenOffice to install OpenOffice > 2.0 because of the repeated crashing of the Fedora version of > OpenOffice. That's not something that I've experienced. > Somehow, I made my login inoperable. How? What were you doing that did that? What did you do while trying to remove Open Office? I can't think of anything that would do that. Removing Open Office is just a case of "erasing" the RPMs for it. That doesn't do anything to your personal files or settings. > When I tried to login the screen went blank for some time then came > back to the login screen. Did you look at the logs to see if it gave an error message? I don't think that any of us could guess the reasons why that happened to you. > Logging in as root I created another user. Although I can reach the old > user directories through /home/oldusr it is a real pain especially with > my eudora mail (can't read my old mail). I tried to recreate the > password for the old user by using passwd, but that didn't cure my > problem. Anyone have a solution to get my old user login to work again. A brute force clean up attempt might be to wipe out anything residing in the /tmp directory. I've seen old files from one user's log in, that didn't get removed after an accident, prevent them from logging in again. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
