Xorg misbehaves when user home directory is missing
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-session (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
This is more a case of unwieldy behavior than an actual bug. Steps to recreate: (1) create a user (2) rename their home directory (3) log in to X as that user.
After a number of error messages pop up, you're left with a semi-running X session. No panels are running so there's no top-bar menu. Also there's no right-button menu on the desktop.
So... There's NO CLEAN WAY TO LOG OUT. Even the two three-fingered-
I understand that the steps-to-recreate are a process that won't happen very often, if at all, during normal use, but there are situations such as migrating a user from one machine to another machine where this sort of thing can and will happen.
I can think of a dozen or more ways that a solution could be put in place, but I'm not sure which of them would be preferable so I'll leave that to the experts.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Feb 4 00:59:19 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/Xorg
MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude E6500
Package: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.6.4-2ubuntu4.1
PccardctlIdent:
Socket 0:
no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
Socket 0:
no card
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
PATH=(custom, no user)
ProcVersionSign
RelatedPackageV
xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu10
libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0-1ubuntu4
libdrm2 2.4.14-1ubuntu1
xserver-
xserver-
SourcePackage: xorg-server
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic x86_64
dmi.bios.date: 07/31/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A14
dmi.board.
dmi.board.name: 0W612R
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.
dmi.product.name: Latitude E6500
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
fglrx: Not loaded
system:
distro: Ubuntu
architecture: x86_64kernel: 2.6.31-17-generic
summary: |
- Xorg misbehaves when user home directory is missing + Xorg misbehaves when user home directory is missingFya6bri |
Changed in xorg-server (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
summary: |
- Xorg misbehaves when user home directory is missingFya6bri + Xorg misbehaves when user home directory is missing |
Changed in gnome-session (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in gnome-session (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. This bug seems to be unrelated to Xorg, not sure exactly which component, but it is at least Gnome related. Changing to gnome-session. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!