No Users Found

gbursztynek

Hello,

for some time now my installation of Solus thinks there are no regular users in the system. The most annoying consequence is that I need to type login and set the preferred desktop environment manually each time I boot my computer up. I've been able to narrow the issue down to LightDM possibly misbehaving, but I'm out of ideas how to fix it.

Here's what I was able to determine so far:

Accessing Users tab within then Settings app shows "No Users Found" message.
My username is present in both /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow.
My UID is 1000.
Within /etc/login.defs UID_MIN is set to 1000.
Within /usr/share/lightdm/users.conf minimum-uid is set to 500.
Within /var/lib/AccountService/users/<username> the value for SystemAccount is set to true. If I set it to false and restart the lightdm service, it automatically reverts back to true. As a matter of fact restarting the lightdm service replaces the file with some sort of default and any changes made to it by me are lost, thus upon booting up SystemAccount is always true for my account.

AngelKrauze

Default UID is always 1000 and your files have normal values, is not based on users issues since Solus always make a $USER cat /etc/passwd | grep /home/$USER apart from root user cat /etc/passwd | grep root

Is the LightDM config, try adding the greeter-hide-users feature:

sudo mkdir -p /etc/lightdm
echo "[Greeter]" | sudo tee -a /etc/lightdm/slick-greeter.conf
echo "greeter-hide-users=true" | sudo tee -a /etc/lightdm/slick-greeter.conf

AccountsService can hide users using

[UserAccounts]
minimum-uid=500
hidden-users=nobody nobody4 noaccess myusername

Is the accounts-daemon.service who reset the /var/lib/AccountsService/users/$USER file, i always mask that service btw

gbursztynek

I think there is a misunderstanding. I don't want to hide users. I want users that are not hidden (to the best of my knowledge) to actually show up. I don't have my username in hidden-users, but I am getting "No Users Found" message within Settings app and I need to manually type my username and pick preferred WM every time I try to log in.

In short, what do I do about this?

AngelKrauze

Oh!

No Users found in Gnome Control Center
My Account not visible in User Accounts

gbursztynek

I already stumbled across those posts and none of the solutions presented in them are working for me. That's why I emphasized in my initial post that my UID is 1000 as is the value of UID_MIN in /etc/login.defs and that setting SystemAccount to false doesn't work, because the /var/lib/AccountService/users/<username> file keeps being overwritten with SystemAccount=true at some point.

AngelKrauze

You dont need your user to get shown at User Accounts for that, hiding users is to stop LightDM asking for usernames each time you login.

I need to type login and set the preferred desktop environment manually each time I boot my computer up

And the ~/.drmc file stores the default session info

[Desktop]
Session=budgie-desktop

In my case the AccountsService file store

[User]
Session=budgie-desktop
XSession=budgie-desktop
SystemAccount=false

Im telling the system to always load Budgie DE by default and disable SystemAccount because LightDM will start using AccounsService files instead of LightDM ones, to stop AccountService overwriting SystemAccount=false you have to mask the service accounts-daemon.service

Is the accounts-daemon.service who reset the /var/lib/AccountsService/users/$USER file

You can always reset software if is malfunctioning or repair it:

Check configs: eopkg check --config lightdm accountsservice
Reinstall it: sudo eopkg it --reinstall lightdm accountsservice
Repair broken: sudo eopkg check | grep Broken | awk '{print $4}' | xargs sudo eopkg it --reinstall

gbursztynek

Masking the accounts-daemon service and then setting the SystemAccount to false did the trick. Thanks!

Justin

gbursztynek This shouldn't be needed though. 😕

gbursztynek

Justin Disabling a service sure feels wrong as a solution, but at this point I have no clue what else I could do. (Apart from just resigning to type the user name and choosing my preferred WM every time I boot up.) This is a relatively fresh install and initially everything worked as expected. The problem appeared on its own several days ago. I wasn't messing with configuration or anything.