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Re: Update under Gnome - I almost passed out!!!

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Op Sun, 15 Oct 2017 02:28:10 +0200 schreef A_Man_Without_Clue  
<love.chaser@gmail.com>:

> Hi all,
>
> I just posted question regarding LXDE panel, but....
>
> i was just trying to see if it would make differences if I switched to
> GNOME desktop and go back to LXDE hoping it might read config file or
> whatever correctly but...
>
> I just was looking around under GNOME for while then the pop-up at the
> top of the desktop sayinf "important Update...." so I clicked and it
> says there are 4 important updates for VLC, OS, Audacious and forgot the
> other one. SO without thinking I clicked to update. Then it said the
> system will reboot automatically and run update. The PC rebooted as it
> said, then displayed progressive update process...took while.
>
> When the PC started with GDM3 display manager (I had configured with
> lightDM though), it only showed my account name. I had three other
> account set up. and it used to show all the other users.
> Anyway, I logged in with my account then GNOME started. Funny thing is,
> there are no Thunderbird, no other apps I had added. Seemed like it only
> had standard apps such as Firefox and others.
>
> i also checked users account to see if other users are there or not, but
> no one else was there. i also checked home directory to see if there are
> other's home directories. Only mine was there.
>
> At this point I was panicked thinking other settings were deleted.
>
> I rebooted the PC again, now from here my memory is bit hazy as I was
> panicking pretty bad but it hanged at start up sequence so I did
> ctl+alt+del to restart (it did respond) to reboot. This time it rebooted
> normally I started recovery mode. I checked if other account home
> directories are there or not, and they are there.
> I rebooted again, then the lightDM appears with all other users. Started
> normally. I was saved but....
>
> What was this behavior? I have never encountered something like this.
>
> Has anyone got same experience as mine?
>
> What was going on? That was pretty bad. I really panicked.
>
> Thanks for reading.
>
>
> Man Without No Clue
>

What are the user id's of the other users? Gdm3 doesn't show users with a  
number below 1000

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Update under Gnome - I almost passed out!!! A_Man_Without_Clue <love.chaser@gmail.com> - 2017-10-15 02:30 +0200
  Re: Update under Gnome - I almost passed out!!! Floris <jkfloris@dds.nl> - 2017-10-15 08:40 +0200
    Re: Update under Gnome - I almost passed out!!! A_Man_Without_Clue <love.chaser@gmail.com> - 2017-10-15 11:00 +0200

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