Make ubuntu gui login work regardless of home folder content

[Patrik Gustafsson]

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/

[Andrea Azzarone (azzar1)]

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