Chris Coulson wrote: > Thanks. Just so I understand this correctly - are you prompted for a > password as soon as you attempt to launch Users and Groups? If so, then > that is wrong, and sounds like you have a stale laucher in your profile > that is launching it with gksu. Was this machine upgraded from Gutsy at > all? > > Anyway, everything is greyed out because you haven't authenticated with > Policykit by clicking on the "Unlock" button (this is what it seems from > your bug report). > > Could you please do the following: > > 1) Open a terminal (Applications -> Acccessories -> Terminal) > 2) Run "users-admin" > 3) Click the "Unlock" button and authenticate. > > Please say whether this works or not. If not, then please post any error > messages that appear in the terminal. > > Thanks > > ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) > Status: New => Incomplete > > The unlock button is disabled. I should have mentioned that. I did do what you requested but this time it did not prompt me for a password, yet the unlock button is still disabled.
I tried '$ sudo users-admin' and received this message: ** (users-admin:25437): CRITICAL **: Unable to lookup session information for process '25437' -- Users/Groups app doesn't allow changing of anything (greyed out) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/317362 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/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
