Upgrade to 15.04 made ~/.config/dconf/user owned by root

[Andreas Schildbach]

I upgraded from Utopic to Vivid RC and had my German keyboard layout replaced by US layout. Opened Control Center > Text Entry and the Input sources list is empty. I try to add German (or US) but nothing happens. The list stays empty. When I try to switch any other setting it very briefly acknowledges the change but then switches back to where it came from.

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu Vivid Vervet (development branch)
Release: 15.04

$ apt-cache policy unity-control-center
unity-control-center:
  Installed: 15.04.0+15.04.20150410-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 15.04.0+15.04.20150410-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 15.04.0+15.04.20150410-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Considering that it was an upgrade, is the ubuntu-desktop package installed?

[Andreas Schildbach (schildbach)]

Yes it is.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Ok, thanks. It was just a basic control question before the developers take over. ;)

[Andreas Schildbach (schildbach)]

I found the reason for the strange behaviour of the system. After upgrading, the file "/home/<username>/.config/dconf/user" was chowned to root. So all write accesses failed.

Looks like there is some bug in the upgrading process.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Hmm... Upgrade to a new Ubuntu version shouldn't touch $HOME like that. Are you sure you didn't do any mistake, like playing with dconf-editor under sudo?

[Andreas Schildbach (schildbach)]

Pretty sure. All I did is "sudo update-manager -d" and click on the upgrade button.

Forgot to add to my last comment: of course I chowned the file back to my user account and the problems are gone.

[Jeff S (jeffspencerd)]

I had this same issue.

[Jeff S (jeffspencerd)]

I was updating from 14.10 fresh install to 15.04.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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