Wow, I thought this had gone down the drain long time ago, thanks for coming back to it. I don't recall exactly what was the case by then, but I usually use a symbolic link so all the OSs installed on my machine use the same directory on a separate file system. I solved the case by myself (and I guess/hope I mentioned it in the bug, not sure...) by renaming the directory/link; the installation went through then.
Still my biggest concern was and is the state of the installation after the crash - usable or not. This was not clear when the error occurred, and the error messages did not help. Proposal would be to make that snippet of the inst process a bit more stable. Thanks again Rüdiger On 02/16/2012 12:01 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > Normally adduser would handle this fine. Is it possible that > /home/coerdtr is a symbolic link, e.g. to an encrypted filesystem > somewhere? That would be an edge case here, I think. > > ** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu) > Importance: Undecided => High > > ** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu) > Status: Confirmed => Triaged > > ** Summary changed: > > - Lubuntu installer crashed near the end of the installation > + Couldn't create home directory: File exists > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/899082 Title: Couldn't create home directory: File exists To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/899082/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
