<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Anne,<br><br>The distro I am using has been created by me referencing LFS/BLFS books.<br>The home directory got created when I used the useradd command. So , no , it did not exist before I created the new user.<br><br>I have seen so many posts where this particular issue was discussed , but none seemed to provide any concrete answer!<br><br>Hope that helps!<br><br>Let me know if you need additional information!<br><br>Cheers!<br><br>Neeraj<br></div><div style="font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Anne Wilson <cannewilson@googlemail.com><br>To: For people using KDE on Linux with related questions/problems
<kde-linux@kde.org><br>Sent: Tuesday, 12 August, 2008 12:27:34 AM<br>Subject: Re: [kde-linux] Problem logging in as non-root user [SOLVED]<br><br>On Monday 11 August 2008 19:07, Neeraj Vaidya wrote:<br>> SOLVED....This thread may be closed.<br>> Here is how :<br>> Created a symlink to the libs in /usr/X11R6/lib from /usr/lib<br>> As root type the following<br>> # cd /usr/lib<br>> # ln -sv /usr/X11R6/lib/* .<br>><br>><br>> I figured I needed to do this because when I tried to start xterm using a<br>> non-root login , xterm was not able to locate libXft.so.2 (pardon me if I<br>> have the name of the library wrong , in a hurry to go back to<br>> sleep....peacefully )<br>><br>> And this I figured by using strace on the xterm command.<br>><br>Neeraj, this could be valuable information to others, so please tell us which <br>distro it is. Also, if you have any other relevant information such as
<br>whether your /home existed before from another distro, or whether you have <br>installed the same distro on another machine with or without that problem.<br><br>Thanks<br><br>Anne<br>___________________________________________________<br>This message is from the kde-linux mailing list.<br>Account management: <a href="https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux" target="_blank">https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux</a>.<br>Archives: <a href="http://lists.kde.org/" target="_blank">http://lists.kde.org/</a>.<br>More info: <a href="http://www.kde.org/faq.html" target="_blank">http://www.kde.org/faq.html</a>.<br></div></div></div><br>
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