On 22 Feb 2023, at 19:25, Geoffrey Leach <geoffleach.gl@gmail.com> wrote:



Thanks. That's half of the problem. Now, what about starting xterm from ~user?

Please post under not above what you are commenting on.

Are you saying that you do not have a GUI desktop installed and configured to alliw you to login?

Barry

On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 9:25 AM Barry <barry@barrys-emacs.org> wrote:

> On 22 Feb 2023, at 17:19, Geoffrey Leach <geoffleach.gl@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 
> After moving from F37 to F36 and re-installing a user directory (with dot files) I discover that login for that user fails. No messages in /var/log, no error message.
>
> I assume that the problem is somewhere in one of the dot files. Any suggestions?

Look in the journal with journalctl.
You will find nothing in /var/log unless you set it up.

Also you can try doing this:

As root: su - username

>
> Thanks.
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