[Bug 1311756] Re: Users lost after upgrade from 13.10 to 14.04

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

The recovery you performed is correct. Users & all data is preserved
only when doing a normal upgrade. Ubiquity's upgrade option does not
preserve that.

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Title:
  Users lost after upgrade from 13.10 to 14.04

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  I had an 32bit-ubuntu-13.10-system with an admin-account "rehs" and two users "rolf" and "sabine". I installed from 32bit-ubuntu-14.10-usb-stick. I choose not to erase but to upgrade the system to 14.10. After finishing I found rehs but rolf and sabine were lost. /home/rolf and /home/sabine were still there. I performed "sudo adduser rolf" and got a new rolf but the warning that rolf did not own /home/rolf". I could solve this problem with
  sudo chown -R rolf:rolf /home/rolf
  sudo chmod -R u+rwX /home/rolf
  sudo chmod 600 /home/rolf/.dmrc
  sudo chmod 755 /home/rolf 

  rehs at rehs-1201NL:~$ lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
  Release:	14.04

  rehs at rehs-1201NL:~$ apt-cache policy ubiquity
  ubiquity:
    Installiert:           (keine)
    Installationskandidat: 2.18.7
    Versionstabelle:
       2.18.7 0
          500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main i386 Packages
  rehs at rehs-1201NL:~$

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