Bug 52938

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Description of problem:
I try to login using the default GUI (Gnome?) login screen, but the home
directory
listed in /etc/passwd has the wrong owner.  In that case things get rather
confused.
A window pops up with no error message and just a continue button.  Nothing
else shows on the screen.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.chown your home directory to someone else
2.login using the gui screen
3.
	

Actual Results:  A window pops up with no error message and just a continue
button.  Nothing
else shows on the screen.  Hitting the continue button gets me back to the
original screen with no indication what is wrong.

Expected Results:  Some more informative error message.  Should login with
cd as /.
Even better would be a dialog about how to fix it, but that is probably
overkill.

Additional info:

This is obviously not a showstopper or a problem many people will run into.
Most who do, will figure out how to deal with it.  Still, it's the kind of
problem
that can happen whe someone installs a new disk containing a /home partition
that may have wrong uids, or they have done an install after wiping out the
root partition (this is what I did), in which case the new uids in /etc/passwd 
may not match what is on the disk.