[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#858246: base: Does not detect users on mounted /home partition

[Joshua Nelson]

Package: base
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i

Dear Maintainer,

I recently installed Debian from an Ubuntu host. I use a mounted home partition for just these scenarios.
Debian installed and booted properly, but on the (graphical) login screen, did not show my user account made with Ubuntu. Ubuntu similarly does not recognize the default user account installed by Debian. Both operating systems function well individually.
The strangest part of this is that /home clearly shows both folders when I access it in files, but does not recognize the folder as a user in the Users application or login screen.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.7
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)