Confirming this behaviour. It was not the case on a absolutely virgin install of 16.04 (about two weeks ago), but now I have the same problem.
My suspicion is that one of the updates that were published since Xenial's release contains a bug. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to unity-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1582876 Title: Unable to change user profile picture in 'user accounts' Status in unity-control-center package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Description: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Release: 16.04 unity-control-center: Installed: 15.04.0+16.04.20160413-0ubuntu1 Candidate: 15.04.0+16.04.20160413-0ubuntu1 Version table: *** 15.04.0+16.04.20160413-0ubuntu1 500 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status When trying to change a users profile picture it wont change, but if you log out and back in with a different sudo user you're able to change the picture of the other one. Not sure why this happens, but for sure this isn't intended this way. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: unity-control-center 15.04.0+16.04.20160413-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-22.40-generic 4.4.8 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-22-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: wl ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Tue May 17 21:39:10 2016 InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-04-18 (28 days ago) InstallationMedia: SourcePackage: unity-control-center UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-05-09 (7 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-control-center/+bug/1582876/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
