I have this too, not only with users-admin, but with services-admin too. In shares-admin it is even more obvious there goes something wrong, because it complains I don't have NFS and/or SAMBA installed, which I both have functioning well.
When started from the commandline with 'gksu users-admin' I receive the message below, followed by a perfectly looking users-admin screen, only it's empty. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gksu users-admin (users-admin:1153): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed. (users-admin:1153): Liboobs-WARNING **: There was an unknown error communicating with the backends: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus) (users-admin:1153): Liboobs-WARNING **: There was an unknown error communicating with the backends: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus) -- "users and groups" empty since upgrade https://launchpad.net/bugs/87805 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs