[Bug 763075] Re: upgrade option should preserve passwd entries for any accounts with home directories

[Evan Dandrea]

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
    Milestone: ubuntu-11.10 => None

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: Evan Dandrea (ev) => (unassigned)

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

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  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.

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