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[Andrea Azzarone <1020944@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Should not be an Unity problem. Probably lightdm or gnome-session.

** Also affects: lightdm
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: gnome-session
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** No longer affects: gnome-session

** Also affects: gnome-session (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: unity
       Status: New => Invalid

** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  Make ubuntu gui login work regardless of home folder content

Status in Light Display Manager:
  New
Status in Unity:
  Invalid
Status in gnome-session package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in unity package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  It should be easy to keep a home folder for a user when doing an installation or to swap home folder.
  Login should always work to some degree regardless of what errors might exist in a users home folder.

  Expected:
  When login in to an account i should be logged in.

  What happends:
  When login in to an account i get returned to login screen.

  Workarund:
  "Very bizarre situation you have their. My best advice to this would create a new user from TTY1 (terminal) using the command adduser.

  sudo adduser newuser
  If you are able to login with the newuser account, then just copy the files out of /home/newuser into your home folder. Also, if you have to copy the files as root, make sure you correct the file ownerships.

  sudo cp -a /home/newuser/. /home/myname/
  sudo chown -R myname:myname /home/myname" 
  - Sepero from http://askubuntu.com/questions/158441/what-files-do-i-need-in-my-home-to-login-in-to-unity

  Possible Solution:
  Have fall back settings that is used if login is not possible because the /home-folder is corrupt or missing required files..

  
  lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
  Release:	12.04

  apt-cache policy unity
  unity:
    Installed: 5.12-0ubuntu1.1
    Candidate: 5.12-0ubuntu1.1
    Version table:
   *** 5.12-0ubuntu1.1 0
          500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       5.10.0-0ubuntu6 0
          500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages

  
  I thought of this as a new feature so i first filed it against brainstorm. But it was rejected as being a bug:
  http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/29920/

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