blank desktop after fresh install

[Todd Denniston]

Robert P. J. Day wrote, On 02/15/2008 03:08 AM:
> On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Andrew Farris wrote:
> 
>> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>> On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Jim Cornette wrote:
>>>
<SNIP>
>>> p.s.  this is installing f9a x86_64 on an AMD-equipped gateway laptop,
>>> if that's relevant.
>> Did you try this with a normal user yet or just guest?  Several
>> people have mentioned they had to just 'useradd' from a terminal.
>> I don't have guest even shown on my machines now and not sure what
>> changed; the guest login never succeeded anyway.
> 
> i just tried guest, so i popped back to a VC, created another account,
> and tried to start another graphical login but i can't get rid of the
> current blank desktop.  heck, i even tried init 3 and init 1 but, when
> i came back to runlevel 5, still that "blank" desktop sitting at VC 7.
> so i'm rebooting and ...
> 
> ... ok, there we go, log in as new user, get a couple whiny dialogs
> about pulseaudio and i'm in.
> 
> that logging in as "guest" is definitely problematic.  once i tried
> that, it seems i was stuck with it until a full reboot and logging in
> under the new account.  not good.
> 
> rday

ClueX4 request:
When did fedora get a "guest" account?
Or am I misunderstanding this "guest" to be a default installed user like the 
  terrible security hole MS windows has?

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Todd Denniston
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