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[Christopher Barrington-Leigh <cpblpublic@xxxxxxxxx>]

** Package changed: apport (Ubuntu) => ubuntu

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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 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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