I cannot replicate this in Bionic, at least if I understand the steps to
reproduce correctly. If this is still valid in Bionic, please re-write
the description with clear steps to reproduce. Ideally, this should be
something that could be recreated from a fresh install. Thanks!
** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged => Incomplete
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Title:
users-admin doesn't report error when PolicyKit authentication fails
Status in gnome-system-tools package in Ubuntu:
Incomplete
Bug description:
Binary package hint: gnome-system-tools
When I run users-admin (gnome-system-tools package version
2.32.0-0ubuntu1) in natty i386, clicking the "Add", "Delete", and
"Advanced Settings" buttons has no effect. Clicking the "Manage
Groups" button does bring up the "Groups settings" window.
In the "Groups settings" window, the "Add" and "Delete" buttons have
no effect. Clicking the "Properties" button does bring up the Group
Properties window for the selected group.
In the Group Properties window, changing the group ID to a number
already in use by another group does issue an error, but changing the
group ID number to a number not already in use or changing which users
are members of the group fail silently (as though the operations had
succeeded).
When I run users-admin from a console, it prints this output to the
command-line upon launch:
GLib-GIO-Message: Using the 'memory' GSettings backend. Your settings
will not be saved or shared with other applications.
(users-admin:1337): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref:
assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
Clicking the "Manage Groups" button results in another assertion
message being printed (every time it is clicked). Clicking other
buttons mentioned above does not result in messages being printed.
When I first experienced this bug, my system suffered from Bug 685349.
I had thought that might have been the cause of this bug (though in
hindsight I am not sure why I thought that). As a workaround for Bug
685349, I manually changed the value of the gconf2 key /apps/gksu
/sudo-mode key from false to true. This fixed my problems elevating
privileges to root in other applications, including other gnome-
system-tools applications, but it did not appear to have any effect on
the behavior of users-admin, including its output to the console. I
bring this up to suggest that this bug in users-admin is occurring
before any attempt is made to elevate privileges to root (or
preventing such an attempt from being made).
(This bug is the "situation" I referred to in Bug 685215 that had led
me to try running users-admin as root.)
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: gnome-system-tools 2.32.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-7.19-generic 2.6.37-rc3
Uname: Linux 2.6.37-7-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Dec 5 13:10:22 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/users-admin
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20101202)
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: gnome-system-tools
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