Home directory not recognized

[mark maurer]

Used synaptic package manager to install linux-oem-20.04d kernel. After reboot login worked fine, but then desktop reverted to default background and scale factor of 1 instead of 2. (the new installation dialog appeared on desktop after login).
Nautilus was very sluggish to open. Normal /home was not shown.

Rebooted and removed Linus-oem-20.04d and everything is fine.

I use a ZFS zpool mirror for my /home (since 16.04 actually). I had great luck using the linux-oem-5.10 kernel in the past, but this time the oem kernel is behaving differently.

I am happy to stay on standard Ubuntu kernel, but just wanted to report this behavior.

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lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS

linux-oem-20.04d

expected to upgrade kernel while leaving desktop and preferences intact

instead my /home was not recognized and desktop reverted to that of a new installation

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: linux-oem-20.04d (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.11.0-40.44~20.04.1-generic 5.11.22
Uname: Linux 5.11.0-40-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.20
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Oct 24 19:30:41 2021
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-11-15 (343 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200731)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: linux-meta-oem-5.14
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[mark maurer (m6032)]

Problem fixed with release of linux-oem-5.14.0-1006