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HrevilO (oliver-h) wrote : creating of new user not compatible with gdm

Creation of a new user after upgrade from 11.04 to 11.10 beta 2 fails in the following way:

The newly created user can't login at gdm.
gdm stops and outputs "could not update ICEauthority file /home/username/.ICEauthority"
ls -la /home/username/ at a shell loged in with the new username shows no such file.

Solution to this was:
Use lightdm instead of gdm.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-system-tools 2.32.0-0ubuntu8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: f919af6e19f0a575dfb14e568c875d23
CheckboxSystem: daed2f3d6643b4a84b4520a2427f8c2b
Date: Fri Oct 7 23:08:22 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/users-admin
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_AT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-system-tools
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)