[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

Still experiencing this bug in Natty - deleting a user doesn't actually delete the user. I'm happy to provide logs etc. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458883 Title: [users-admin] dele

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

@Dario: please file a new bug for Maverick using ubuntu-bug adduser Thanks. ** Changed in: adduser (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released ** Tags added: regression-release verification-done ** Tags removed: regression-potential -- [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work https://bugs.l

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

I'm getting this exact same problem in maverick If needed I'll try to provide a log later ** Changed in: adduser (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Released => New ** Tags added: regression-potential ** Tags removed: regression-release ** Tags removed: verification-done -- [users-admin] deleting a u

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

** Changed in: gst Importance: Unknown => Medium -- [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458883 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubunt

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

I'm getting this symptom in Lucid, with the addition of users-admin crashing with SIGSEGV in oobs_users_config_delete_user(). Same issue or not? -- [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458883 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubu

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

** Changed in: adduser (Debian) Status: New => Fix Released -- [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458883 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-b

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

Your problem does not belong to this bug, you must create a new bug report. however, if you've executed 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' and the problem is still there, and you can't install or remove programs using apt-get or aptitude, try deleting the lock file using: sudo rm /var/cache/apt/archives/

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

i have a problem...pls help me E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem. E: _cache->open() failed, please report. -- [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458883 You received this bug notification beca

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

This bug was fixed in the package adduser - 3.110ubuntu7 --- adduser (3.110ubuntu7) karmic-proposed; urgency=low * deluser: Explicitly set $PATH, so that this also works when being called from programs/environment without $PATH (such as D-Bus activated backends). This fixes

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

Users must be deleted with sudo deluser username - doesn't work through GUI -- [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458883 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

** Changed in: adduser (Debian) Status: Unknown => New -- [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458883 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@l

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

Copied to lucid. ** Changed in: adduser (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released ** Changed in: adduser (Ubuntu Karmic) Status: Fix Released => Fix Committed -- [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458883 You received this bug notificati

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

This bug was fixed in the package adduser - 3.110ubuntu7 --- adduser (3.110ubuntu7) karmic-proposed; urgency=low * deluser: Explicitly set $PATH, so that this also works when being called from programs/environment without $PATH (such as D-Bus activated backends). This fixes

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

Confirmed to work here, too. ** Tags added: verification-done ** Tags removed: verification-needed -- [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458883 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

** Branch linked: lp:ubuntu/karmic-proposed/adduser -- [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458883 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubunt

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

I've reinstalled adduser (3.110ubuntu6) before because i've applied the patch before, but now, after installing adduser (3.110ubuntu7), I can confirm that I can successfully remove users without a problem. Thank you so much ;). -- [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work https://bugs.launchpad.

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

SRU confirmation. With 3.110ubuntu6 from karmic I'm unable to delete users using the 'Users and Groups' tool. After installing 3.110ubuntu7 from karmic- proposed I can now successfully remove users using the 'Users and Groups' tool. -- [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work https://bugs.laun

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

Accepted into karmic-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance! ** Changed in: adduser (Ubuntu Karmic) S

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #555307 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=555307 ** Also affects: adduser (Debian) via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=555307 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work h

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

This makes a lot of sense, thanks Milan! I forwarded the patch to Debian (will link the bug once it gets processed), and sponsored the patch. ** Changed in: adduser (Ubuntu Karmic) Status: New => In Progress ** Changed in: adduser (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed -- [u

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

** Also affects: adduser (Ubuntu Karmic) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags added: regression-release -- [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458883 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscri

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

Ah, nice work Milan! -- [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458883 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

It works very well !!! Thank you so much!!! ;) -- [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458883 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

This is what i've done: 1.- sudo dbus-monitor --system 2.- loaded users-admin and deleted the user. here is the output of 'sudo dbus-monitor --system': signal sender=org.freedesktop.DBus -> dest=:1.62 serial=2 path=/org/freedesktop/DBus; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=NameAcquired str

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

Yeah, very detailed, now I'm sure the path is '/' and not something strange. dbus-monitor seems to indicate that this wrong message is actually D-Bus introspection asking for an answer, so nothing very problematic. I don't know why I don't see it here, maybe I've not updated my system enough. What

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

Wow, not very verbose, but at least now we know that there was not error, and that message destination was set (because it took you 7 'next' to get out of the function). So it seems that the problem is only that the destination was different from org/freedesktop/SystemToolsBackends/*. Could you br

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

Ok Milan, this is what i got ;) ja...@sion:~$ sudo G_DEBUG="fatal_criticals" gdb system-tools-backends [sudo] password for jaime: GNU gdb (GDB) 7.0-ubuntu Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later This is free so

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458883 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailin

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

Good. Yet another step and we should know where the problem really comes from - it seems to be a D-Bus problem. Could you try 'sudo G_DEBUG="fatal_criticals" gdb system-tools-backends' again, but then do: break get_destination run and when the breakpoint is reached print dbus_message_get_path (m

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

I've installed system-tools-backends-dbgsym_2.8.2-1_i386.ddeb before. -- [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458883 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubunt

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

ok, this is what i got: ja...@sion:~$ sudo G_DEBUG="fatal_criticals" gdb system-tools-backends GNU gdb (GDB) 7.0-ubuntu Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later This is free software: you are free to change and

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

OK, this sound more logical. Any chance you could run the system-tools-backends in gdb to identify the precise source of the error? You should install the debug packages for your version (2.8.2-1) and architecture from http://ddebs.ubuntu.com/pool/main/s/system-tools-backends/ Then you should ru

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

I repeated the whole procedure again and: 10.- 'sudo which system-tools-backends' output is: /usr/sbin/system-tools-backends -- [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458883 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is su

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

Thanks Jaime! I've been a little stupid asking for 'ps ax | grep .p' because it prints much noise too, but the information is interesting. If others want to try, you can concentrate on the simple step 'sudo system- tools-backends -v', since everything else seems to be fine. The message CRITICAL **

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

I forget to tell you that the user is still there. -- [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458883 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

I've reinstalled Ubuntu again! The following is from a fresh reboot: 1.- 'sudo which perl' output: - /usr/bin/perl ---

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

Yeah, I was aware the patch was not about the very same problem, but I preferred testing that one too, since the problem here is very strange - some cleaning is always helpful. So you say using userdel solves the issue. Are you completely sure of that? I.e., does that work even when rebooting afte

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

Yeah applying the patch (submitted by Ricardo) to the source of system-tools-backends works very nice. This is what i did: 1.- sudo apt-get source system-tools-backends and decompress it. 2.- sudo patch /home/jfoc/system-tools-backends-2.8.2/Users/Users.pm < ../Descargas/fix-deleting-users.pa

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

Sorry, the above command has a typo. The right one is: sudo patch /usr/share/system-tools-backends-2.0/scripts/Users/Users.pm < fix-deleting-users.patch (I typed "fix-deleting-user" instead of "fix-deleting-users".) -- [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/4

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

Great! Using the info submitted by Milan, I've found a create a patch which solves the user deletion problem for me. Like Milan's one, please apply the attached patch using: sudo patch /usr/share/system-tools-backends-2.0/scripts/Users/Users.pm < fix-deleting-user.patch and report if that fixes t

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

Sorry, Milan, but unfortunately your patch doesn't solve the problem. Aside from that, your patch seems to touch the change_user subroutine, instead of del_user, which should have more sense... -- [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458883 You received this

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

** Also affects: gst via https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=600056 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458883 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is sub

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

OK I guess I've found the culprit, which is a stupid-but-major typo. Please apply the attached patch using sudo patch /usr/share/system-tools-backends-2.0/scripts/Users/Users.pm < [PATH TO FILE] and report if that fixes the issue for you. Thanks! Darren: This dialog is itself a major difference

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

@Milan, The only difference between what I and the others here are experiencing is that I get a dialogue about the user still being logged in. I fail to see how this could conclusively be a separate bug. I haven't tried to use the killall commands that others here have posted because, frankly, I'm

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

Darren: Then please report this separately, that's likely to be another problem. -- [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458883 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

I'm getting slightly different behaviour. This is what I did to reproduce: 1. Create user. 2. Log out and log in with new user. 3. Log out of new user account and back into admin account. 4. Try to delete user via "Users and Groups". It warns that the user is still logged in even though they do

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

I am experiencing this problem too (marked #463582 as duplicate) and my steps to reproduce include a new session - and even a separate user. So this bug seems to be generic for any kind of account deletion, even with the original user created by a clean install of at least Ubuntu 9.10. The GIDs ar

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

@Milan: The problem appeared me when I tried to delete a user I had created several months ago, so obviously I restarted the computer several times between the user creation and the user deletion. -- [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458883 You received t

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

Thanks for the details. Does that happen even if you create the user, restart the computer, and then try to delete it? The only bug I can think of is that we would not be removing users that were just created during the current session. -- [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work https://bugs.l

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

mm could this be a library bug? -- [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458883 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https:

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

WORKAROUND: only typing the following command on a gnome terminal and leaving it opened: $ sudo killall /usr/bin/perl; sudo /usr/share/system-tools- backends-2.0/scripts/SystemToolsBackends.pl -m UsersConfig Then go to System->Administration->Users and Groups and now you can delete a user. -- [

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

users-admin.log is empty. -- [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458883 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

I confirm the same behaviour as Jaime Fernando on comment #9: after execute sudo killall /usr/bin/perl; sudo /usr/share/system-tools- backends-2.0/scripts/SystemToolsBackends.pl -m UsersConfig -v &> ~/stb- users.log sudo /usr/share/system-tools-backends-2.0/scripts/SystemToolsBackends.pl -m UserC

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

** Attachment added: "stb-users.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/34681000/stb-users.log -- [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458883 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

I have the same problem. I'm unable to delete a user. The dialog removes the user from the users list, but the user is still in the system. -- [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458883 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bu

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

** Attachment added: "stb-user.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/34680990/stb-user.log -- [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458883 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-b

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

i guess something similar happened to me: i created 2 temporary users, and noticed the bug upon deleting them... but today i noticed that one of these has been deleted (yesterday i launched those command suggested in the wiki), nonetheless i tried again deleting the second user but it still stays

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

What??? I don't understand... when i execute: sudo killall /usr/bin/perl; sudo /usr/share/system-tools- backends-2.0/scripts/SystemToolsBackends.pl -m UsersConfig -v &> ~/stb- users.log users-admin works perfectly and deletes the user created, but if I don't execute this command, users-admin does

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

users-admin.log is empty ** Attachment removed: "stb-user.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/34473430/stb-user.log -- [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458883 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscrib

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

** Attachment added: "stb-users.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/34473383/stb-users.log -- [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458883 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

** Attachment added: "stb-user.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/34473430/stb-user.log -- [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458883 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-b

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

** Attachment added: "stb-user.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/34473422/stb-user.log -- [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458883 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-b

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

To reproduce this bug is simple: 1.- Go to System - Administration - Users and Groups 2.- Click on the 'Click to make changes' button and enter your password. 3.- Click on the Add User button, then fill in the Username, Real name, User password and Confirmation fields, then click on the OK button

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

Thanks for your report. We need more information to understand how the bug you describe could happen. Please read the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingGnomeSystemTools, and follow the procedure for the tool users-admin. ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Status: New

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

i can confirm this, i can even login with the deleted user -- [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458883 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@list

[Bug 458883] Re: [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work

** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/34227251/Dependencies.txt -- [users-admin] deleting a user doesn't work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458883 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --