Bumping this bug, as it's in effect. The user I'm trying to delete is "rtc" and I'm logged in as "watcher". Here's some output:
~: cat /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS" ~: w 22:46:07 up 8 days, 10:09, 3 users, load average: 0.04, 0.23, 0.12 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT watcher pts/0 99.230.244.23 22:34 0.00s 0.20s 0.00s w ~: who watcher pts/0 Oct 27 22:34 (99.230.244.23) ~: ps -U rtc -a PID TTY TIME CMD 9991 pts/0 00:00:00 ps ~: pkill -KILL -u rtc ~: sudo deluser rtc Removing user `rtc' ... userdel: user rtc is currently logged in /usr/sbin/deluser: `/usr/sbin/userdel rtc' returned error code 8. Exiting. ~: sudo userdel rtc userdel: user rtc is currently logged in -- Can not delete new user which use "adduser" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/239069 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
