Hardy Alpha-4 synaptic error

[Richard Mancusi]

On Feb 3, 2008 10:32 AM, Richard Mancusi <vrman49 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 3, 2008 10:15 AM, Jason Crain <jason at bluetree.ath.cx> wrote:
>
> > On Feb 3, 2008 9:35 AM, Jason Crain <jason at bluetree.ath.cx> wrote:
> >
> >
> >  Could you run this and tell us what it shows:
> >
> > sudo -H bash -c 'echo $HOME'
> >
> >  /home/root
> >
> >  That's pretty strange.  Try running sudo usermod -d /root root to set
> > root's home dir.  If that doesn't work, you may have to look at root's
> > .bash* or .profile files to see if $HOME is being set anywhere.
> >
>
> Okay - that did it, sudo -H bash -c 'echo $HOME' now shows /root
> and I was able to do the updates and I added build-essential as a test
> via Synaptic Package Manager.
>
> Thank you for fixing my problem - I hope it is localized to me and
> not a Ubuntu problem.  I know everything I did post install and may
> research this some more.
>
> tnx
> -rich
>

Okay, I did another clean install and can repeat the problem.  On a test
system I always set a root password and allow root logon.  Yes, I know
that isn't a great idea, but it comes in handy on a test system.

As soon as I set a root password in System/Administration/Users and Groups
the root user Home directory moved from /root to /home/root.

I guess it's a matter of opinion as to whether this is a bug.  Ubuntu and
common sense tells you to not set a root password.  But if you are going
to allow it, it should work correctly.  I leave that to the developers.

-rich