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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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1020944
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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