[PLUG] Authentication denied: User doesn't exist 521

Marvin Kosmal mkosmal at gmail.com
Thu Nov 4 05:57:15 UTC 2010


Hi

Why not do a clean install.??..  Then just add you home directory later?


Marvin

On 11/3/10, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
> I just upgraded Fedora 11 x86_64 to Fedora 13 x86_64 using the DVD.
> Actually, I tried to upgrade to Fedora 14, but the Fedora 14 DVD
> informed me that it could only do two versions. Using the decimal
> arithmetic I learned in kindergarten, I quickly calculated that it
> would work if I used a Fedora 13 DVD. Indeed, the Fedora 13 DVD worked
> fine.
>
> However, after the install a number of programs will not launch.
> Frequently I get the error message "Authentication denied: User doesn't
> exist 521."
>
> I hate to inform the Fedora project, but I do, indeed, exist. Cogito
> ergo sum. Wait ... I can't think. OK, nevertheless, I exist. I'm not
> sure if I'm user 521, however.
>
> If anyone has a clue, please share it with me.
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