Hi all,
Recently I happened to add an application to be started whenever I login to the system on an RHEL ES system. This I did by using Start Menu | Preferences | More Preferences | Sessions and startup programs on a GNOME Desktop. It didn't start on a KDE Desktop even at that time.
All was fine and the application used to popup when I start login as desired user. Then later on I stopped the startup of the application by removing the corresponding entry at the same location. But then whenever I login as the concerned user I am unable to start GNOME but can only login to KDE (Both are installed).
For other users on the system there is no problem using both the Desktop Environments.
googling around also didn't help so all the suggestions are valuable
Thanks in advance
Abhilash
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On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 01:56:33 +0000 (GMT), abhilash kumar linuxwarrier@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Recently I happened to add an application to bestarted whenever I login to the system on an RHEL ES system. This I did by using Start Menu | Preferences | More Preferences | Sessions and startup programs on a GNOME Desktop. It didn't start on a KDE Desktop even at that time. All was fine and the application used to popup when I start login as desired user. Then later on I stopped the startup of the application by removing the corresponding entry at the same location. But then whenever I login as the concerned user I am unable to start GNOME but can only login to KDE (Both are installed).
how was the application stopped & how did you remove the entry, by using GUI or CLI ? I am no expert but if you used GUI to delete the app, afaik Linux is unlike the Windows OS where GUI is used to 'uninstall' most applications. Here it is an instance and you *may* have deleted the desktop application for that particular user only. If CLI, what command did you use ? Please give more details. _svaksh_
Svaksh wrote:
how was the application stopped & how did you remove the entry, by using GUI or CLI ? I am no expert but if you used GUI to delete the app, afaik Linux is unlike the Windows OS where GUI is used to 'uninstall' most applications. Here it is an instance and you *may* have deleted the desktop application for that particular user only. If CLI, what command did you use ? Please give more details. _svaksh_
If its not a big hassle, the user's data can be backed up in a seperate folder and the user removed by root. Then create the same user again and restore the data. Do the chmod -r 777 for the backedup files accordingly or else the root's modified files may not be accessible by the newly created user.
Regards,
Rony.
Sometime Today, Rony Bill assembled some asciibets to say:
restore the data. Do the chmod -r 777 for the backedup files accordingly or else the root's modified files may not be accessible by the newly created
chown -R user:group userdir would work better.
Sometime on Mar 26, Rony Bill assembled some asciibets to say:
Suppose an existing user 'rony' was removed, and a new user called 'rony' was created, how will the system remove the older 'rony' and allot the existing ~rony directory to the new 'rony' ?
file ownership is on userid/groupid as specified in /etc/passwd. When you delete a user, all file ownerships remain with the user id, but lose the link with the user name. Create a new user with the same name and that user gets a new userid (or maybe the same, it doesn't matter). chown to the new user and all file ownership changes to the new user
it's a trivial matter to use 'find' to change all files owned by the user.
Philip
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