Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) reached end-of-life on July 18, 2019.
See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test. If you then find the bug is still present in the newer Ubuntu version, please add a comment here telling us which new version it is in and change the bug status to Confirmed. ** Changed in: gnome-shell (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1788546 Title: gnome-shell silently fails to login when user files are owned by another user Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: If you change the ownership of files in /home/<user> to another user, you can no longer log into <user>'s gnome-shell session - instead, you are either returned to the gdm login screen or the computer locks up. This is even the case if .config and .local and .cache are completely empty. gdm/gnome-shell does not tell you what the error is, so it is very annoying trying to figure out how to fix it. It would be great if the user got an error message explaining the issue and how to fix it. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10 Package: gnome-shell 3.29.90-2ubuntu1 Uname: Linux 4.18.4-041804-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu7 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Thu Aug 23 13:51:04 2018 DisplayManager: gdm3 GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.shell' b'had-bluetooth-devices-setup' b'true' b'org.gnome.shell' b'favorite-apps' redacted by apport b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'gtk-im-module' b"'gtk-im-context-simple'" b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'gtk-theme' b"'Adwaita-dark'" InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-08-16 (371 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412) SourcePackage: gnome-shell UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to cosmic on 2018-08-15 (7 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1788546/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
