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[PaulReiber <reiber@xxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

This is more a case of unwieldy behavior than an actual bug.  Steps to
recreate:  (1) create a user (2) rename their home directory (3) log in
to X as that user.

After a number of error messages pop up, you're left with a semi-running
X session.  No panels are running so there's no top-bar menu.  Also
there's no right-button menu on the desktop.

So... There's NO CLEAN WAY TO LOG OUT.  Even the two three-fingered-
salutes (ctrl-alt-del and ctrl-alt-backspace) fail to shut down X.  An
experienced end user will switch to tty1 or some other virtual terminal
and kill the X server from the command line.  However, a less
experienced end user will probably end up powering down the computer to
recover from this.

I understand that the steps-to-recreate are a process that won't happen
very often, if at all, during normal use, but there are situations such
as migrating a user from one machine to another machine where this sort
of thing can and will happen.

I can think of a dozen or more ways that a solution could be put in
place, but I'm not sure which of them would be preferable so I'll leave
that to the experts.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Feb  4 00:59:19 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/Xorg
MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude E6500
Package: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.6.4-2ubuntu4.1
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=64193dcd-8a8f-4115-9ba0-cf31eeb7f02f ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu10
 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0-1ubuntu4
 libdrm2 2.4.14-1ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.0-1ubuntu2.1
 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090929.7968e1fb-0ubuntu1
SourcePackage: xorg-server
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic x86_64
dmi.bios.date: 07/31/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A14
dmi.board.asset.tag: RSTOPS-PBR
dmi.board.name: 0W612R
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: RSTOPS-PBR
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA14:bd07/31/2009:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeE6500:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0W612R:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Latitude E6500
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
fglrx: Not loaded
system:
 distro:             Ubuntu
 architecture:       x86_64kernel:             2.6.31-17-generic

** Affects: xorg-server (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug

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Xorg misbehaves when user home directory is missing
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