Cloudy
March 7th, 2007, 01:55 PM
Hi all,
Recently during my Operating Systems class, we installed Debian on a PC using a Knoppix Live CD. Some of the PCs in the lab already had Debian on them, others didn't. I sit at one of the machines that already had Debian installed, but I didn't have a user account on it. Anyway, after making a new account via the command "useradd" I can't log in to the user I created.
I'll walk you through what I did:
Booted into Debian. There was only one user account on it (from an install done by a prior class) so I pressed ctrl alt f1 to go into a virtual terminal and logged in as root in order to create a new account.
Did useradd <username> and changed the new user's password
then I went back to the login screen and refreshed X. However, whenever I try to log in with my new account I get a little popup error that says "Cannot start kstartupconfig." and I'm thrown back to the login screen.
Can someone help me? :)
Recently during my Operating Systems class, we installed Debian on a PC using a Knoppix Live CD. Some of the PCs in the lab already had Debian on them, others didn't. I sit at one of the machines that already had Debian installed, but I didn't have a user account on it. Anyway, after making a new account via the command "useradd" I can't log in to the user I created.
I'll walk you through what I did:
Booted into Debian. There was only one user account on it (from an install done by a prior class) so I pressed ctrl alt f1 to go into a virtual terminal and logged in as root in order to create a new account.
Did useradd <username> and changed the new user's password
then I went back to the login screen and refreshed X. However, whenever I try to log in with my new account I get a little popup error that says "Cannot start kstartupconfig." and I'm thrown back to the login screen.
Can someone help me? :)