On Thursday 27 December 2018 12:14:07 Thierry de Coulon wrote: > On Thursday 27 December 2018 17.08:16 Gene Heskett wrote: > > The pi installer cannot be defeated. I installed 5 times trying to > > get the first user to be named me. I gave up, so on my pi, I am pi. > > The only arm install I've found that lets you name the first user is > > armbian stretch on an arm64. Its a genuine PITA on a 6 machine home > > network. > > Hi Gene, > > Seems I did defeat it. I installed the latest Raspbian (based on > Stretch) and it did install the Pi user. I then renamed the user and > the home directory, changed the primary group to users. > > Everything worked except this recuring kpersonalizer thing. I checked > the kpersonalizerrc file, but it was correct. > > In the end I removed the execution permission to kpersonalizer > un /opt/trinity/bin and it seems to do the trick: I can log normaly > into my user. > > THierry > Good to know, but in my case I was restricted to jessie because at the time, that was the only distro that had realtime enough kernels to run LinuxCNC. And they are a problem child, randomly throwing away both keyboard AND mouse events FROM ITS OWN CONSOLE. Remote logins don't seem to suffer near as much. Strangely, that behavior seems to be related to the reboot, when its bad, sometimes a reboot fixes it, but more often will get worse, so you just keep rebooting it till its mostly gone away. Then it will work fine for 3 or 4 months. Makes it hard to stay the hell outta the bars though. Intermittents with no explanation bug me... 3 different kernel builds do it, the newer, the worse it is. Not this lists problem, just a comment about the sucky arm support in general. No more main memory than the pi 3b has, xfce is the fawnciest x install I've tried. Runs an 11 by 54 inch Sheldon Lathe, now about 70yo, just fine after putting motors and ball screws on it I could control from software. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>