I performed an fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04. I have /home on a different partition from root. Installing 14.04 and mounting /home went without any problem. During installation I was asked to make a user and I made a new user with my user-name and password. My home folder was correctly added to my user-name. After this I made users for my different family members and adding their existing home folder which went fine except for one.
In one case I could make the new user, same user-name as the home folder. Login for this user failed. The screen turns black and one would expect the desktop for this user to appear. I can hear the drum-sound which indicates that you are logged in, but the login-screen returns. I am unable to login for this one user.
If I try to login this user in cli everything is fine. I can browse the home folder and files.
Of course I don't want to loose the home folder for this user. What should I do?
Thanks in advance.
Ubuntu – Unable to mount home-directory for user after fresh install 14.04
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Best Answer
Elder Geek is right about the UID.
The steps to check the problem goes like this:
You might see the UID is appeared as number rather than your current user name, e.g. appear as 1002
You can check your current user UID
If they are different (1002!=1000) than we know this is the problem.
Solution:
You may now try to login.
Cheers : )