** Summary changed: - E: ERROR: could not create configuration directory /home/root/.synaptic - mkdir (2 No such file or directory) + [users-admin] Changing anything about the root account sets and invalid home directory
** Description changed: + Hi, + + When the user uses users-admin to edit anythin to + do with the root account the root home directory is + set to /home/root/. This makes tools like synaptic + unable to open. + + The problem is that the preferences window uses + a profile from /etc/gnome-system-tools/users/profiles + to set certain default values. For the root account it + is the "Administrator" type, which says that the + home folder should live under /home/ + + This means that /home/root is then filled in as the default + value of the Advanced tab for the root user. Therefore + if the user makes any change and presses "OK" (or perhaps + on no change) the home directory for the root account is + set to the wrong value. + + I think that this is fine behaviour for new accounts, but for + existing accounts these fields shouldn't be set to the + default value, but to the current existing value, which + would mean that clicking OK would only set the value + to the same as it was before. + + The original report remains below. + + Thanks, + + James + + ------- + After I installed the last update today, I keep receiving this error message when I try to open the Synoptic Package Manager: E: ERROR: could not create configuration directory /home/root/.synaptic - mkdir (2 No such file or directory) -- [users-admin] Changing anything about the root account sets and invalid home directory https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198172 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
