upgrade option should preserve passwd entries for any accounts with home directories
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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High
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: ubiquity
Just upgraded from Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.04 Beta 2 from a burned disc. I selected the "Upgrade" option. During the installation process I was prompted to select my time zone, create a new user account and name my system. Suspicious of this, I created a user account with a different name. The installation proceeded. Toward the end of the install it tried to put my old, installed software back, but after running through every application I was told that none of them could be installed.
Once the install was finished and the new system rebooted, the only user account that existed was the new one that I created during the "upgrade" process. Fortunately my old user folder still existed in the /home. However, I'm not sure if the "upgrade" process would have overwritten/deleted all of the files and preferences if I had used my same user name during the upgrade process.
summary: |
- Upgrade process creates new user account, deletes all of my installed - software + upgrade option should preserve passwd entries for any accounts with home + directories |
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Evan Dandrea (ev) |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu): | |
milestone: | none → ubuntu-11.10 |
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | Evan Dandrea (ev) → nobody |
milestone: | ubuntu-11.10 → none |
tags: | added: ubi-upgrade |
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Incomplete |
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