Re: Hangs when user-id changed

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Either delete the /tmp/ORBIT-username directory (I think that is the
directory name), or chown it to the new user ID.  That should fix the
problem.

James.

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On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, J. Edward Ellis wrote:

> I could look through the archives, but this is a rather unique
> problem.  I installed a user with nominal user-id of 500 and then
> discovered that I have to assign a user-id that is related to the
> payroll number of the user.  I deleted the account and the user
> directory.  I then recreated the user with exactly identical values
> except with a new user-id.  This has occured on several machines.
> The Gnome problem is that I can not log in.  Enlightenment hangs.
> I think that there is something hanging around with the old user-id
> that is not in the user's home directory to which enlightenment needs
> access, but access is denied. I can log in on other user accounts just fine.
> 
> Here are the particulars:
> Dual Pentium-Pro 200MHz
> Redhat 6.1 was installed via ftp from Redhat 6.1 RPMs.
> kernel 2.2.12-20
> libc 1.2.5-1
> gtk+ 1.2.5-2
> imlib 1.9.7-1
> ORbit 0.4.95-2
> gnome-libs 1.0.40-1
> 
> J. Edward Ellis
> edward.ellis@pnl.gov
> Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
> 
> 
> 
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