Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 965164
$HOME owned by root if a partition with mountpoint inside $HOME is created during install
Last modified: 2013-12-25 11:28:55 EST
Description of problem: If, during install, the user creates a mountpoint inside the future $HOME, $HOME will be owned by root. This causes gnome to crash when logging in since $HOME is not writeable. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda-19.28-1.fc19.x86_64 gnome-initial-setup-0.10-1.fc19.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot live cd, start installation 2. Select to review/modify partitions (I've selected standard partition scheme, not LVM or BTRFS) 3. Automatically create the standard paritions (boot, root, swap), and add an other patition with mountpoint /home/$username/data, where $username is the future username 4. Begin the installation, but do not create any users at this point (but do in in gnome-initial-setup) 5. Reboot 6. gnome-initial-setup runs. Before completing the setup, quickly switch to a VT, login as root and do a stat /home/$username: it's owned by root 7. Finish the gnome-initial-setup 8. From a VT, again stat /home/$username: it's still owned by root 9. Attempt to login into gnome: noting happens, and you'll eventually find yourself looking at the login screen again (the cause obviously being that the home directory is not writeable). Also note that any files from /etc/skel are not copied into $HOME
Seems fixed now