unofficial mirror of help-guix@gnu.org 
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Pietro Ferrera <p.ferrera@openmailbox.org>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Error while logging in
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 17:07:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160224220736.GA30027@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160224183407.1594D7C257C@mail2.openmailbox.org>

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 07:34:10PM +0100, Pietro Ferrera wrote:
> Hi all! 
> I managed to install the distro (standard install, config.scm is pretty much the default desktop.scm, just a /home partition added) with almost no problem, but I can only log in as root. Whenever I try to login as a normal user I get the following warning
> 
> "failed to execute login command"
> 
> and get thrown back to the login screen.
> 
> This happens both with ratpoison and xfce
> Can someone help me? 

This is a guess, but did you set a password for your user? You can log
in as root and then do `passwd username`.

> Thanks a lot,
> 
> P.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-24 22:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-24 18:34 Error while logging in Pietro Ferrera
2016-02-24 22:07 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-02-25  5:32 Pietro Ferrera
2016-02-25 10:14 ` 宋文武

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://guix.gnu.org/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20160224220736.GA30027@jasmine \
    --to=leo@famulari.name \
    --cc=help-guix@gnu.org \
    --cc=p.ferrera@openmailbox.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).