[Bug 786318] Re: In installation, gui falsely claims there are no other users/OSs that can be imported

[Colin Watson]

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Title:
  In installation, gui falsely claims there are no other users/OSs that
  can be imported

Status in “migration-assistant” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I installed 11.04 in a partition next to 11.04. I set /home to the existing /home partition. Yet the install process for 11.04 (all disks ext4) claimed there were no users to import. This keeps happening. What a pain to always have to recreate a second superuser, then transfer over / delete /or etc it later.
   Correct behaviour would be to find the user or not claim it had tried if it doesn't know how. It surely couldn't get easier than finding a linux user already on the /home partition, with /etc/passwd stuff on a same-distro linux partition?

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: gnome (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sat May 21 13:40:11 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: meta-gnome2
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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