So here is my problem...
So here is my problem...
- Subject: So here is my problem...
- From: David Barto <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 14:44:06 -0700
I've just upgraded to Mt. Lion and have the following problem:
The user that under Lion worked with X auto starting properly no longer has X auto starting. The DISPLAY environment variable no longer appears in that users environment. This user has a custom UID of 20000 to match the Linux environment that is present at work. Lets call this user linuxid.
I create a new user (me, UID 504) copy all the work files (and Unix environment files, .bashrc, etc) from the broken linuxid account.
Logout, login as the new 'me' and this new user sees the DISPLAY in its environment. Cool I think, I'll just clone (ditto) this new 'me' user to the older linuxid user and chown the files to be owned by that older user and life is good.
not so much
So I backup and try it the long way verifying everything along the way:
Login to the Admin account (Admin) and clone 'me' to a new user
ditto . /Users/clone
move my current home directory to the side
move /Users/me /Users/me.orig
and then move the clone to be me
mv /Users/clone /Users/me
and then login as 'me' to verify that the 'ditto' operation isn't breaking anything.
Everything is fine.
Good, logout, login as Admin
Move the unixid user out of the way
mv /Users/linuxid /Users/Unixid.orig
Convert my current login (which works) to the linuxid name
mv /Users/me /Users/linuxid
Restore my original working login
mv /Users/me.orig /Users/me
Logout, login as 'me' to verify that everything is working.
It is.
Logout, Login as Admin
Change the ownership of the files in the linuxid account
sudo chown -R linuxid /Users/linuxid
Logout
Login as linuxid
Bummer, no DISPLAY in the environment.
What am I missing?
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