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Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 17:07:36 -0500
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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.