It is a pity that it happens on a freshly installed system. However it seems that neither up-to-date Dapper nor up-to-date Edgy suffers from this. Can you confirm this?
** Changed in: Ubuntu Sourcepackagename: None => gnome-system-tools -- home folder is not created when a new user is created through users-admin https://launchpad.net/bugs/72134 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs