Comment 21 for bug 871667

I issued bug #877622, which was marked as a duplicate of this one. I've now worked around the problem by issuing the following command in the terminal:

 sudo chown -R username:username /home/username

This allowed me to log in graphically to my user account for the first time after I did a clean install over Natty. Recreating the other user accounts in the GUI perfectly reconnected them with their home directories and I haven't experienced any problems so far. I'm going to wait a couple of weeks before installing Oneiric to my other two machines, however.