I can not create a user

From: lama_madrid (alejandrotb_at_gmail.com)
Date: 03/26/05 

Date: 26 Mar 2005 09:29:20 -0800

Hello.

I don't speak english very well (I am from Spain). I'll try to explain
my trouble:

After to intall the last version of Debian and create the user "alex",
I did the next steps:

1.- Create tar of /home/alex.
2.- Add new line in /etc/fstab because I want to asociate new
filesystem to dir /home:
/dev/hdb5 /home ext2 rw 0 2
3.- Restart the computer, login as root and mkdir /home/alex in new
filesystem. Use the tar for extract files in /home/alex
4.- Exit as root and go to the X environment. Login as alex, validate
is ok, and then the screen don't change and don't show any icon.
5.- Go to the command line and login as root and do deluser alex. The
deluser finish OK.
6.- Create new user: adduser alex or adduser alex2 ... adn finish NOT
OK with the next message:
"Configuration error - unknown item 'CLOSE_SESSIONS' (notify
administrator)"

Can you help me? Thank you, and sorry for my poor english.

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