Having installed Fedora 9, I rebooted, and firstboot ran. Entered my Actual name, then username, followed by password. After repeating password as requested, firstboot crashed. It was late, and I'm not sure if the machine was auto rebooted, or just locked up. Either way, when I next booted the machine (and a lot of stuff skipped here) I ended up with a login screen, which showed my real name, and hovering the mouse over my name said logging in as djmons. That's ok, as it was the correct username, but entering the password to login to Gnome just brought me back to the login screen. I use KDE, so chose to login to KDE next, and got the following output. Could not start kstartupconfig4. Check your installation This appears to be the result of firstboot crashing when setting up user/password, as when I booted into runlevel 3, and tried to login as djmons, I got the following output. localhost login: djmons Password: No directory /home/djmons Logging in with home = "/". This is getting frustrating now, but su to root, and create a new user. I now reboot, and the login screen shows one entry for my real name, and a new entry for the new user I have created. Logging in to either Gnome, or KDE, as the new user presents no problems, and can login to either Gnome, or KDE. The question is. How do I remove the original user that was partially setup before firstboot crashed. If I run adduser, It says that djmons is already a user, but logging in as djmons has no access to /home/djmons, as apparently the /home/djmons directory does not exist. How do I remove djmons, as a user from the system, so that he no longer exists? Then I can recreate the original user (djmons), and hopefully be able to access both Gnome and KDE. I've never had such problems before with Fedora like this. Is firstboot crashing a known problem? Thanks for any help with this problem. Nigel. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
