/home/$USERNAME/.config owned by root

[Ryan Tandy]

Upon booting the 2015-01-2018 vivid livecd, the desktop session fails to start because /home/ubuntu/.config is owned by root.

This appears to be the fault of scripts/casper-bottom/51unity8_wizard, which runs as root.

WORKAROUND to enter a live session:
 1. press Ctrl+Alt+F2
 2. execute: sudo chown ubuntu: -R ~/.config/
 3. execute: sudo restart lightdm

ProblemType: BugDistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: casper 1.349
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.18.0-11.12-generic 3.18.3
Uname: Linux 3.18.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.15.1-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.349
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed Jan 28 18:35:10 2015
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Alpha amd64 (20150128)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bashSourcePackage: casper
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Ryan Tandy (rtandy)]

Hi,

casper 1.350 does not resolve the bug, because $USERNAME is not in the initramfs' fstab.

Possible solutions:

chroot /root chown -R $USERNAME.$USERNAME /home/$USERNAME/.config

chown -R 999.999 /root/home/$USERNAME/.config

Thanks.

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1415586

[Dave Kokandy (drkokandy)]

This appears to have been resolved as of the 15 February 2015 Lubuntu live vivid image for amd64. lubuntu is owner of ~/.config and everything that should be there is there.