upgrade option should preserve passwd entries for any accounts with home directories

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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.

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

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