What do you expect gnome-session to do about this in this case then? There are multiple components in your desktop session which won't work properly if there is no home directory (eg, dbus, gconf etc will all fail). It's not entirely clear what you expect to happen
** Changed in: gnome-session (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: gnome-session (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Incomplete ** Changed in: gnome-session (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs) -- Xorg misbehaves when user home directory is missing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/516929 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs