Hello cdaaawg,

I think that your new user is probably lacking the configuration files needed to start an X sessions, among which the most important in Slitaz is ~/.xinitrc. Please login as tux (or any working user), open a terminal and check the content of the home directory of your new user. If something is lacking (and probably everything is lacking) copy all the content in /etc/skel in the home of your new user and give it the right owner and group. This should fix the problem.

I can give you more details if you don't know how to do it with command line instructions.

Sheers,
LuX.

Will give it a try, LuX. Thanks for the info. I see there is a lot of content in /etc/skel and some in /home/tux that didn't get copied to the new user's $HOME directory. Isn't all the content in /etc/skel normally copied to a newly created user's $HOME directory? Is this a bug in Taz? Thanks so much for the help.

Carl

For anyone needing assistance, here are the bash commands I used to copy, then change ownership of all necessary files and directories (hidden included):
Must be root!
su root

Copy all files:
cp /etc/skel/.*?? /home/username/

Change ownership of all files and directories in the user's home
chown username /home/username/.*??

Hope this helps,
Carl

In reality, the solution I presented will not work in all instances. It will fail if there are files or directories with a single character such as `.a'. To get around this invoke the following:
su root

Set shell options to allow the dot (.) to be included in file name expansion when using globbing:
shopt -s dotglob

Change to the home directory for username
cd /home/username

Recursively copy all files and directories:
cp -r /etc/skel/* /home/username

Change ownership and group of all files and directories recursively:
chown -R username:username /home/username/*

Sorry if I caused anyone grief, it was purely unintentional.

Oops, forgot to change the shell options back:
shopt -u dotglob

i don't have "shopt" command. what package should i download? i'm also trying to solve "failed to execute login command" problems.

Hi,
I don't think you really need "shopt", just follow Lux's instructions.

Cheers
Stephane

i've done that but i still get the error when logging in as tux. what i did was to cp /etc/skel to /home/tux the chowned the folders/files to tux ownership --- all this as root.

Humm, just to make sure, would you mind:

a) posting the output of the command?

# ls -al /home/tux/.*

b) confirm that this is not a password issue?

Hi,

I have also experienced some troubles in managing new users with Slitaz 3.0. Actually the /etc/skel directory contains a lot of useless files, but not the mandatory .xinitrc file (and the .config/slitaz/applications.conf file which is loaded by .xinitrc). So, after you have created your new users, you have to fill their home directories with the needed files as explained here:
http://doc.slitaz.org/fr:handbook:systemutils#gestion-des-utilisateurs-et-groupes
This is a french page, so I report below the usefull part. If your new user has login name "pomme" with home directory /home/pomme you can repeat the following commands (as root):

 # rmdir /home/pomme
 # cp -a /etc/skel /home/pomme
 # cp /root/.xinitrc /home/pomme
 # mkdir -p /home/pomme/.config/slitaz
 # cp -a /etc/slitaz/applications.conf /home/pomme/.config/slitaz
 # chown -R pomme:pomme /home/pomme

Note that the first command, rmdir, completely removes the home/pomme but will work only if this directory is empty (which is the case if you did not modify it already). This directory is re-created by the second command, "cp -a /etc/skel...", with the same content as /etc/skel. This is a trick to copy in /home/pomme all the content of /etc/skel without omitting the subdirectories and the files whose name start with a ".". Indeed these files won't be copied by the more natural command used by Carl:

 # cp -r /etc/skel/* /home/username

This can be refined. Personally I didn't want to copy in the home directories of my users all the unnecessary files which are (and shouldn't be) in /etc/skel. So before applying the above procedure I moved this directory (just to keep a backup of it in case of) and created a new /etc/skel with only the files that I wanted to include:

 # mv /etc/skel /etc/skel.ori
 # mkdir /etc/skel
 # cp /etc/skel.ori/.gtkrc* /etc/skel/
 # cp /etc/skel.ori/.profile /etc/skel/
 # cp /etc/skel.ori/.Xdefaults /etc/skel/
 # cp /etc/skel.ori/.profile /etc/skel/
 # cp /root/.xinitrc /etc/skel/
 # mkdir /etc/skel/.config
 # cp -R /etc/slitaz /etc/skel/.config/
 # mkdir /etc/skel/Desktop

Then I replaced the user's directory by a copy of this /etc/skel, modified the owner and restarted:

# rmdir /home/pomme
 # cp -a /etc/skel /home/pomme
 # chown -R pomme:pomme /home/pomme

Regards,
LuX.

PS : The fact that /etc/skel does not contain the right files by default can be considered as a bug, IMHO.

thank you toto and lux. i have used instead slitaz-3.0-xvesa.iso and solved my problems and gives me more choices on resolution.