<html><head></head><body>Try deleting the account and setting up a new one since you seem to have success with other users. Maybe backup user's files first and put them back on the new account'm <div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 15, 2014, Fabrice Delente <delentef@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <pre class="k10mail">I have installed several PCs with Xubuntu 12.04 at my workplace, most people can open a terminal but one of my users can't: he can authenticate in lightdm and access his desktop, eveything work except the terminal emulator. Trying M-x shell in emacs just gave 'Shell process exited'. Nothing special shows in dmesg or /var/log/syslog... Trying to log in at the console (Ctrl+Alt+F1) doesn't work either, nor su-ing to his accounts from the root account. Does anybody have any help to solve this? Thanks! F. Delente </pre></blockquote></div> -- Roger</body></html>