Re: [Evolution] Evo 1.4.6 to Evo 2.2, SuSE to Ubuntu

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> > > No. And somehow, I managed to screw-up an .xsession file in the process
> > > and now can no longer even login to Ubuntu!  :-( So close and yet, so
> > > far away ...
> >
> > Quick any dirty solution: Create a new user (see 'man useradd'), copy
> > the .xsession file to your screwed users $HOME and adjust UID and GID to
> > that user.

[...]
> > You should own all the files (recursively) in ~/.evolution/mail/local
> > and have at least read and write permissions (u+rw) as well as
> > read/write/execute permissions (u+rwx) on the dirs.
> >
> > Do you have this?
>
> Yes, that's what I did, but it didn't change anything - I was still
> getting the same error message. It was subsequent to that that I did
> something (most of my major screw-ups come late at night when I'm tired
> ..) that caused me not to be able to login. I'm not sure what I did. I'm
> not going to re-install because I think it will solve the basic problem
> - I'm going to do it just so that I can get back to the point of being
> able to login.

Re-Installing the entire system just for the purpose of creating a user?

Switch to a console (Ctrl-Alt-F1), log in as root and create a new user
(see 'man useradd'). Log in as that user to your graphical Desktop
(Alt-F7) and from that working account see what the issue with your
existing one is, compare the hidden dot files.

There are a gazillion other ways of repairing the broken account, short
of re-installing everything...

HTH

...guenther


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