Login problem

[Rob Weir]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 06:29:17PM -0400, john said
> Howdy!
> 
> Yesterday I installed Ubuntu on my desktop (good stuff).  Everything
> works for the user I created during installation.  I added another user
> ("adduser amanda"), and she can't login: the X screen blanks to the
> background color and nothing happens.  The mouse cursor is still there,
> and I can kill X and get back to the GDM login screen. At first,
> the .xsession-errors was filled with permission denied on
> reading /dev/dsp.  Then I added amanda to all the groups that the
> default user was in ("amanda adm dialout cdrom floppy audio video
> plugdev lpadmin") and the same thing happens, but at least
> the .xsession-errors looks normal.

Can "amanda" login from the console?

-rob

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