I just encountered what looks like this bug, but it worked a little bit
differently:
1) Attempted to change admin account's password (xxx to yyy) using Users and
Groups. It was rejected for being too similar to the one to be changed.
2) Tried changing to an automatically generated password
The attachment "patch for src/users/run-passwd.c" seems to be a patch.
If it isn't, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove
the "patch" tag, and if you are a member of the ~ubuntu-reviewers,
unsubscribe the team.
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Hi,
here a patch of src/users/run-passwd.c that allows me to do
multiples mistakes when trying to change my password.
** Patch added: "patch for src/users/run-passwd.c"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-tools/+bug/661272/+attachment/4619463/+files/run-passwd.c.patch
so it seems for my case that we are stuck in "case PASSWD_STATE_NEW" of
io_watch_stdout, because of an error of "Authentication token
manipulation error".
If i force the state to go to PASSWD_STATE_RETYPE by adding
else if(is_string_complete (str->str, "token", NULL)) {
On Ubuntu 16.06 (daily build 23/02/2016), the interface is not the same as in
gnome-system-tools, but one can see that
the filesrc/users/run-passwd.c present in
gnome-system-tools
was reused inpanels/user-accounts/run-passwd.c in ubuntu-control-center
with some
update to previous test
fill current password
fill new password with current password
fill confirmation with current password
click ok
get the error message that new password is the same
focus on current password
fill new password with a new password
fill confirmation with a new password (
some infos :
Test :
fill current password
fill new password with current password
fill confirmation with current password
click ok
get the error message that new password is the same
fill new password with a new password
fill confirmation with a new password ( without error ! )
Here two case
Hi,
bug append also in Xubuntu 14.04.03.
It is a very annoying bug for people who install distros with a generic
password. Once the pc is delivered, the first thing to do is to change
the password and a lot of time the user make a "fatal" mistake…
Some informations i gathered for now :
This bug is also present on the 12.04 final.
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Title:
changing user password causes hang in users-admin
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Reopened because afflict natty
** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu)
Status: Expired = Confirmed
** Tags added: natty
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Chris: Are you able to reproduce the problem now? If I change my
password from lowercase to uppercase, I get an error message, not a
hang. Are you using Maverick? Could you try the procedure from comment
#12 too?
Fabio: How can you say it affects Natty? Do you experience the bug there
too? If so,
Milan: I tried the test in comment #11 and had no unusual output. The
password changed successfully in the second terminal.
Using the GUI, it hangs every time and does not change my password. I
tried this from a fresh install first, and the problem continued after
several after running all
[Expired for gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) because there has been no
activity for 60 days.]
** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete = Expired
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Another question: please open two terminals, and:
- in the first one, run 'passwd', type your *old* password, hit RETURN, and let
the terminal in this state
- then, in the second one, try to change your password using 'passwd' the
normal way
Then, please copy/paste the output of the second
Nope, that works as it should, perhaps it's just the call to passwd from
gtk that causes the problem.
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And how about my comment #11?
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Teej: thanks for the trace, but that's not really what I need since I
know where the problem happens in the code (where it waits for a reply
from the 'passwd' program), but I need to know why it waits. (And BTW,
you'd need to install more debugging symbols packages to get a useful
trace.)
Yes, the password did change that way and was left as the old one
What do you mean? I really don't understand this sentence as its two parts
sound antithetic to me.
My general idea is that users-admin hangs when 'passwd' fails with an
error message we don't handle. Which doesn't seem to be the
The password, when changed through users-admin when it crashed was not changed.
Using passwd user in the terminal changed it, so the problem is with
users-admin.
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You didn't answer my other questions...
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I encountered the bug too after I performed an system update this
morning (15. October) via update-manager.
Your other questions:
1, No, actual and new passwords differed, I was careful enough to
perform the correct steps that should have led to successful password
change.
2, The hanging
Oops, I should really have a coffee before replying.
I didn't use the same password, and I did try other passwords with the same
result. It is reproducible every time as far as I can tell.
I will run through DebuggingProgramCrash on the wiki and see if I can some kind
of trace (now I'm awake).
Managed to grab a backtrace (attached)
** Attachment added: gdb-users-admin.txt
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-tools/+bug/661272/+attachment/1696289/+files/gdb-users-admin.txt
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Why have you changed this to New. Please don't.
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If it hung, it's likelly that the change wasn't performed. Could you
please run 'passwd' in a terminal, try to change your password that way,
and copy/paste the full output here? Thanks!
** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = Medium
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Yes, the password did change that way and was left as the old one:
$ passwd xx
Changing password for xx.
(current) UNIX password:
Enter new UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
passwd: password updated successfully
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