users-admin cannot add groups in hardy beta

The screenshot shows the status after trying to reproduce twice in a row. So there is two empty entries appended to the group list.

I can confirm this. It doesn't lock up for me, but otherwise it's behaving exactly the same.

I can also confirm this problem in hardy beta. I can also not add users. The users appear to be added
but are not, they are not created and are not there the next time the app is opened. The following output appears on the command line:

(users-admin:6400): Liboobs-CRITICAL **: create_dbus_struct_from_user: assertion `(login && password && homedir && shell)' failed

(users-admin:6400): Liboobs-CRITICAL **: Not committing due to inconsistencies in the configuration, this reflects a bug in the application

there is a similar bug with existing users:
I can not add an existing user to further groups

- First, I can not unlock the settings as normal user. It just gives me "unexpected error".

- starting sudo users-admin gives the same grayed out list.

see screenshot. (this is a sudoed window)

April 5, 10:31 EDT Just ran Synaptic and upgraded all packages (running kernel 2.6.24-15 if this helps.) Seeing same problem described above, but an empty group is not being added. Nothing is being added. Looked at the group file (sudo gedit /etc/group) and there are no blank entries. I am not seeing the lock-up problem

When I try to add the first group, (web) the default group number comes up as 1001. If I try to add a second group (dev-web), the default group number comes up as 1002. If I exit the Users and Groups app, restart it, unlock the admin functions, and try to add a group again, the default group number is reset to 1001.

Hope this helps

I can confirm. Freshly updated and restarted just now. Same issue.

Here too, empty groups are added. What is even more interesting: When you add a group, it proposes you GID 1001. When you then click ok and check the properties of the new non-named group, it has GID 1002. When you add another group, it tries to give GID 1002 and ends up with 1003 and so on.

But it doesn't freeze, I can just close users-admin and when I start it again I can play the same game from square 1.

Ditto. I can't add groups using users-admin, although the application doesn't crash - it just won't add any groups

Please note that it crashed on me only once, and after a lot of trying around with adding (empty) groups and deleting them again and so on...

Maybe someone can reproduce it, though... just give it a try!

For me it's pretty easy to make it crash:

1. open it
2. unlock
3. "manage groups"
4. add a group (which will be an noname-one)
5. quit "manage groups"
6. "add user"

old_toby: Confirmed using your steps (thanks)

It leaves a crash dump in /var/crash, which I'll use to open another bug report once I've upgraded my system. It would be worth you doing the same

In fact, I can't delete users or groups using users-admin either. Not sure if I can add users though. In it's current state, it's completely non-functional

The crash described by old_toby is bug 207804. Thanks for these easy steps to reproduce the bug, I forwarded them to this bug report.

Chris: I can add and remove users without problems. What do you mean it would be worth me doing the same thing? Adding a duplicate? Or is it possible to add a .crash report to an existing bug?

I can confirm this problem on hardy daily-live 20080417 (clean installation).

I can see what's wrong here, but I need to learn something
about g_object before I can fix it.

Thanks,

James

Hi,

Attached is a debdiff that allows me to add a group. I also
checked that I could add users to the group, change it's
gid, and delete the group.

Thanks,

James

I confirm that the James Westby patch fixed all issues with adding/modifying users/groups.

Sébastien: can you please take a look at it?

new revision uploaded

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-system-tools - 2.22.0-0ubuntu9

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gnome-system-tools (2.22.0-0ubuntu9) hardy; urgency=low

  * Make it possible to create a group by using the tool by not
    ignoring the group name that was chosen. (LP: #205144)
    This is debian/patches/85_users_fix_add_group.dpatch.

 -- James Westby <email address hidden> Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:06:09 +0100

Thank you very much!

Right now I'am using Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 RC fully updated (21/04/2008) and the gnome-system-tools (2.22.0-0ubuntu8) with this bug, is that gnome-system-tools (2.22.0-0ubuntu9) be released in the final 8.04, in synaptic latest is 2.22.0-0ubuntu8, cant wait for the fix, thanks.

cafilubu : When a bug is set to "fix released" you can assume that a update exist in ubuntu repositories, but you can wait some hours before it appears in synaptic. Also when a package is updated before the final release, the updated version finally get on the final release ISO.

Patience! It's been built according to https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/+builds?build_text=gnome-system-tools&build_state=all. Just waiting for it to be uploaded ;)

I am running 8.04 with all of the latest updates (2008-June-14) and I am still having issues trying to add a user. The widget seems to add the user and then if I close and reopen the user is gone. message from terminal when attempting to add user is similar to older comment:

(users-admin:7793): Liboobs-CRITICAL **: create_dbus_struct_from_user: assertion `(login && password && homedir && shell)' failed

(users-admin:7793): Liboobs-CRITICAL **: Not committing due to inconsistencies in the configuration, this reflects a bug in the application

Hi Andy,

Your problem looks a lot like bug 212317.

Thanks,

James

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