Cannot login to newly created user account

Posted by penner on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by penner
Published on 2012-07-05T08:38:34Z Indexed on 2012/07/05 9:22 UTC
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Trying to switch accounts to my newly created account I get a black screen and then it takes me back to the main login screen after entering the correct password.

Upon logging into my previously existing account I get:

"System Program Problem Detected"

Details:

Executable path /usr/bin/Xorg

Package: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.11.4-0ubuntu10.1

Details: Crash
... (tons more, but no way to copy paste or save)

When I try to su

su -l penner

I get:

No directory, logging in with HOME=/

I manually created the home directory and this error goes away but still no luck with the login. Seems something has gone wrong with the user creation? How can I correct this?

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