Jaunty: home dir already exists?!

[Charlie Kravetz]

On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:25:10 -0400
"H.S." <hs.samix at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I just installed Jaunty over Intrepid on a machine, but kept my /home
> partition intact.
> 
> So, /home/ has all the users' dirs in it. Now when I want to create
> the users who were there in Intrepid, Juanty is complaining that
> /home/<user> already exists. This is when I use the Users management
> GUI. Is this how it is supposed to work? Shouldn't it be asking me
> that the home dir already exists and whether to use that one?
> 
> I think meanwhile I will just use the good old adduser command in a
> terminal.
> 
> Regards.

This is a bug in Ubuntu. Launchpad is broken today, so it is hard to
research and find this one.

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