2009/9/20 Milan Bouchet-Valat <[email protected]>

> Good, we know have the original error. I don't know what can trigger
> this, but the problem is not specific to the gnome-system-tools.
>
> Please run 'sudo apt-get install lslk' and
> lslk /etc/passwd
> It seems that another process/user is locking the file, preventing us from
> editing it. Sure, we should report errors instead of failing silently, but
> that's another story.


There seems to be no locks...

t...@dv5:~$ lslk /etc/passwd
t...@dv5:~$ sudo lslk /etc/passwd
lslk: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon file system
/home/tta/.gvfs
      Output information may be incomplete.


> I don't think encrypted home changes anything to the problem, since the
> file is on the root partition.
>
>
Was just wondering could ecryptfs somehow block the writing of user specific
info.

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