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[Christopher Barrington-Leigh <cpblpublic@xxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

I installed 14.10 yesterday on a formatted partition next to a 13.04
system partition and a /home partition.

When prompted for a username, etc, I entered the same user info as existed already in /home.
Because it was the first user in both cases, the uid matched.

(Gripe: unlike Linux more than 10 years ago, it did not offer to import
existing users from the existing installation).

When I booted up in 14.10, logging in through the GUI just bumped me
back to the gdm login screen after a few seconds of blank screen.
Logging in through a terminal worked fine.

I then tried 13.04 and had the same problem!  That is, 14.10 install had
actually corrupted my user account on /home so that I could no longer
startx !

I eventually noticed that some files (I think ~/.dmrc and some
~/.Xauthority.*) had ownership root:root.

Thus, a workaround ended up being a
sudo chmod -R myuser:myuser /home/myuser
~on my home folder.

ProblemType: Bug

** Affects: apport (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug trusty

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** Description changed:

  I installed 14.10 yesterday on a formatted partition next to a 13.04
  system partition and a /home partition.
  
  When prompted for a username, etc, I entered the same user info as existed already in /home.
  Because it was the first user in both cases, the uid matched.
  
  (Gripe: unlike Linux more than 10 years ago, it did not offer to import
  existing users from the existing installation).
  
  When I booted up in 14.10, logging in through the GUI just bumped me
  back to the gdm login screen after a few seconds of blank screen.
  Logging in through a terminal worked fine.
  
  I then tried 13.04 and had the same problem!  That is, 14.10 install had
  actually corrupted my user account on /home so that I could no longer
  startx !
  
  I eventually noticed that some files (I think ~/.dmrc and some
  ~/.Xauthority.*) had ownership root:root.
  
- Thus, a workaround ended up being a 
+ Thus, a workaround ended up being a
  sudo chmod -R myuser:myuser /home/myuser
  ~on my home folder.
  
  ProblemType: Bug
- DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
- Package: apport 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.5
- ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-37.64-generic 3.13.11.7
- Uname: Linux 3.13.0-37-generic x86_64
- ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.5
- Architecture: amd64
- CrashReports:
-  600:109:116:0:2014-10-17 12:21:05.818536419 -0400:2014-10-17 10:44:22.182663424 -0400:/var/crash/_usr_bin_evince.1000.uploaded
-  664:1000:116:0:2014-10-17 12:21:03.894536461 -0400:2014-10-17 12:21:03.894536461 -0400:/var/crash/_usr_bin_evince.1000.upload
-  640:1000:116:5564293:2014-10-17 12:21:01.806536436 -0400:2014-10-17 12:21:04.914536439 -0400:/var/crash/_usr_bin_evince.1000.crash
-  0:1000:116:10197699:2014-10-17 07:19:16.569187578 -0400:2014-10-17 07:19:05.641187701 -0400:/var/crash/_opt_google_chrome_chrome.1000.crash
- CurrentDesktop: Unity
- Date: Sat Oct 18 11:54:15 2014
- EcryptfsInUse: Yes
- InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-08-21 (58 days ago)
- InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
- PackageArchitecture: all
- SourcePackage: apport
- UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1382826

Title:
  During fresh install of 14.10 with existing /home partition, user is
  no longer able to graphical log in

Status in “apport” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I installed 14.10 yesterday on a formatted partition next to a 13.04
  system partition and a /home partition.

  When prompted for a username, etc, I entered the same user info as existed already in /home.
  Because it was the first user in both cases, the uid matched.

  (Gripe: unlike Linux more than 10 years ago, it did not offer to
  import existing users from the existing installation).

  When I booted up in 14.10, logging in through the GUI just bumped me
  back to the gdm login screen after a few seconds of blank screen.
  Logging in through a terminal worked fine.

  I then tried 13.04 and had the same problem!  That is, 14.10 install
  had actually corrupted my user account on /home so that I could no
  longer startx !

  I eventually noticed that some files (I think ~/.dmrc and some
  ~/.Xauthority.*) had ownership root:root.

  Thus, a workaround ended up being a
  sudo chmod -R myuser:myuser /home/myuser
  ~on my home folder.

  ProblemType: Bug

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