Comment 6 for bug 205144

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