Unable to sign into 11.10 user

Question

I upgraded to 12.04 today from 11.10 from a bootable thumbdrive. The upgrade took approximately 8 hours. I had to make a new user, and I'm unable to sign into my user that I used in 11.10. I can see my files in the /home/ directory, but there isn't an option to sign into that user on the boot screen. I am also unable to use the normal "Ubuntu" setting, I get a black screen with that. I have to use "Ubuntu 2D". Please help.

Answer 1

You have a permissions problem.

What you need to do is get to a terminal as explained here, and sign in with your username and password.

Then, you need to run the following:

sudo chmod -R 750 /home/$yourusername

Then, type:

sudo reboot to restart your computer.

Once that's done, you should be able to log in via lightdm.

Answer 2

A workaround could be : move you old user folders and files to your new user home.

If you want to keep all your setting you must view the hidden folders from nautilus (view > show hidden files) then copy the hidden folders of your choice AKA application you will still use.

Answer 3

Copy/Replace the entire usr/previous user/home with your new /usr/current user/home

Go to user a/c and delete the old one with all files