I have this problem, although not directly due to an upgrade. I had to reinstall 8.10 from scratch (upgrade from 8.04 was a bomb). I left my /home partition intact. I then attempted to restore my users' accounts and passwords by pasting lines from backed-up /etc/passwd, group, shadow, and gshadow files. I didn't replace the new file entirely from backup, just lines pertinent to my 1000+ uid users.
Overall the operation appears to be a success; my users can log in and their files and settings are intact. But there are some odd side- effects, like my primary login (uid 1000) was removed from the admin group in the process. I'm pretty sure I didn't do that manually, but I had to boot up in recovery mode to re-add it. I'm pretty sure my messing around with those four files caused all my users to disappear from that window. So maybe I'm the bug in this scenario. [ducks.] db -- "users and groups" empty since upgrade https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/87805 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
