Hello!
Let's install Drupal 7.9 with Pathauto 7.x-1.x-dev (2011-Oct-27) and 7.x-1.0-beta7. Core Blog module should also be enabled. If we'll try to visit testsite.com/blog/1, everything is OK - this page exists (though empty). But if we'll try to visit Pathauto-generated alias for this blog (testsite.com/blogs/OUR_FIRST_USER_NAME), there will be "Page not found" message, and it will stay there until we'll add some "Blog post" content.

That is not good - user can't subscribe to the RSS of this empty blog, for example, or it is much harder to override this blog with Views. Views allows us to show in the user's blog not only blog posts, but also other content types - but because of this problem blog still will be presented as not existing, even if user posted content, that should be displayed (but is not of "Blog post" type).

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dave reid’s picture

dave reid
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Status: Active » Closed (cannot reproduce)

I can't confirm this behavior with just core and the latest Pathauto/Token. I still see a 'You have not created any blog entries.' page when navigating to blogs/user-name that has no posts browsing as user #1 and as an anonymous user.

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renat commented
Status: Closed (cannot reproduce) » Closed (works as designed)

Correct, alias for user #1 just wasn't created yet. But there were more serious problem - looks like, though, that it is core Blog module "feature", not the Pathauto bug. If particular user wasn't granted with "Blog entry: Create new content" permission, his blog just doesn't work.

I do fully understand, why Blog module was excluded from D8...