[Bug 240437] Re: Creating an user destroys most of users and groups configuration
Run script in terminal 1: sudo killall perl /usr/bin/perl; sudo /usr/share/system-tools-backends-2.0/scripts/SystemToolsBackends.pl -m UsersConfig --platform ubuntu-8.04 Run script in terminal 2: sudo killall system-tools-backends; sudo /usr/bin/system-tools-backends -nd Run users-admin in terminal 3: After 50 seconds, Users Settings GUI appears but with no users visible. Close users-admin. Run users-admin in terminal 3: After 20 secondis, Users Settings GUI appears with only root user visible. Close users-admin. Wait 5 minutes, then run users-admin in terminal 3: After 20 seconds seconds, Users Settings GUI appears but with no users visible. Close users-admin. Save script outputs from Terminals 1 and 2 to attached file bugtest_100112. ** Attachment added: bugtest_100112 http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37773728/bugtest_100112 -- Creating an user destroys most of users and groups configuration https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/240437 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to liboobs in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 240437] Re: Creating an user destroys most of users and groups configuration
Milan - I have tried to run the two scripts as requested but there appear to be problems already... Terminal 1: ubu...@ubuntu:~$ sudo killall perl /usr/bin/perl; sudo /usr/share/system-tools-backends-2.0/scripts/SystemToolsBackends.pl -m U$ perl: no process killed /usr/bin/perl: no process killed Can't locate U$.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share//system-tools-backends-2.0/scripts /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/share/system-tools-backends-2.0/scripts/SystemToolsBackends.pl line 51. ubu...@ubuntu:~$ Terminal 2: ubu...@ubuntu:~$ sudo killall system-tools-backends; sudo /usr/sbin/system-tools-backends -nd sudo: /usr/sbin/system-tools-backends: command not found ubu...@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install system-tools-backends Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done system-tools-backends is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. ubu...@ubuntu:~$ Note that this is using Xubuntu 8.04.1 live CD. Please advise what code and/or tests I should run next. Many thanks. -- Creating an user destroys most of users and groups configuration https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/240437 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to liboobs in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 240437] Re: Creating an user destroys most of users and groups configuration
Thanks for the reply Milan. As I am getting a bit confused as to where to go from here would you please advise exactly what tests I should now run with the Xubuntu Live CD, specifying if I should first set a user password for ubuntu. -- Creating an user destroys most of users and groups configuration https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/240437 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to liboobs in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 240437] Re: Creating an user destroys most of users and groups configuration
Fresh boot from Live CD. Copy /var/log/auth.log to attached file auth_no_passwd. Use passwd command to change default ubuntu password from (null) to 123456789. Copy /var/log/auth.log to attached file auth_new_passwd. Note the Error attempting to open/unwrap messages at the end! Run the two commands in different terminals: - in the first window: sudo killall perl /usr/bin/perl; sudo /usr/share/system-tools-backends-2.0/scripts/SystemToolsBackends.pl -m UsersConfig --platform ubuntu-8.04 - in the other one: sudo killall system-tools-backends; sudo /usr/sbin/system-tools-backends -nd Run users-admin in a third terminal. The root user is now visible in the Users Settings GUI. Click on the authentication button and enter password 123456789. The root user remains visible. Add new admin user test and enter password of 123456789 when requested. GUI error box appears with message The configuration could not be saved. GUI Authenticate box appears with message System policy prevents modifying the system configuration. Enter password of 123456789. GUI error box appears again with message The configuration could not be saved. root and test users now visible in the Users Setting GUI. Close Users Settings window. Terminal outputs from two specified commands attached in files command1 and command2. Terminal output from users-admin command attached in file usersadmin home directory for test is created. cat /etc/passwd now shows full list of 32 users, including new user test. See attached file passwd. cat /etc/group now shows 59 groups, including new user test. However, group admin only includes ubuntu, not new user test. See attached file group. Sudo capability for user ubuntu now apparently working but no password requested! (Tested by editing a root file with command sudo nano /etc/hosts.allow) Copy /var/log/auth.log to attached file auth_new_user. No dbus entries present. ** Attachment added: Files.tar.gz http://launchpadlibrarian.net/32616972/Files.tar.gz -- Creating an user destroys most of users and groups configuration https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/240437 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to liboobs in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 240437] Re: Creating an user destroys most of users and groups configuration
Just to clear up any confusion I will reiterate the comments in my original post. I am using an old, slow, AMD-K6 PC. The problem I raised is only apparent with this PC, although it works fine with other applications (albeit s l o w l y ! ). When I have tried the same Live CDs in more powerful PCs, users-admin appears to work correctly. A practical workaround is to add new users via terminal, rather than GUI, commands. My concern is that Xubuntu is meant to be suitable for older PCs, and I believe that new users could have difficulty resolving the problems if this bug cannot be fixed. It is interesting to note that the Kubuntu Live CD does appear to work correctly in this PC, including the kuser GUI, especially as KDE apps tend to be heavier than XFCE/Gnome apps. My experiences with this bug are that it never gives the same outcome twice, indicating that it is likely to be related to the significant processing delays inherent in old PCs. This is why my original description was Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor. -- Creating an user destroys most of users and groups configuration https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/240437 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to liboobs in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 240437] Re: Creating an user destroys most of users and groups configuration
Thank you for the info Milan. Yes, I did click Ctrl+C before creating the user as the output had apparently stopped. I have now re-run the test with the following results: After opening users-admin, the GLib-GIO-WARNING (x3) appears, together with a GUI error box The configuration could not be loaded. When this error box is closed nothing happens. On repeating the users-admin command, the GLib-GIO-WARNING (x3) is repeated but without the GUI error box. The GUI Users Settings box then appears. New password 123456789 then entered to authenticate changes. Add new admin user test via GUI. This results in the Liboobs-WARNING, together with a GUI error box The configuration could not be saved. Close error box and new GUI Authenticate box appears, with a repeat of the Liboobs-WARNING and GUI error box. Authentication password 123456789 is rejected with Authentication Failure message. Hit enter with no password and close the error box. This error process is repeated once more, producing the list of Liboobs-WARNING three times in total. At this point, the Users Settings GUI now has the Add User button greyed out and no users are shown in the box. The last row of the test commands line shows file_locate_tool_failed::Couldn't find tool [pw]. No shell prompt is shown. The last row of the users-admin terminal output is (users-admin:3498): Liboobs-WARNING **: There was an unknown error communicating with the backends: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. No shell prompt is shown. Closing the Users Settings GUI restores the shell prompt to the users- admin terminal. However, the test commands terminal remains stopped at the line file_locate_tool_failed::Couldn't find tool [pw]. The shell prompt can then only be restored with Ctrl+c. cat /etc/passwd shows 31 users but new user test is not shown. cat /etc/group shows 21 groups, including ubuntu but not test. Also, group adm and admin have been deleted. User ubuntu is not listed against any of the current groups. sudo capability again lost. Passwords of both 123456789 and (null) are now rejected with the message ubuntu is not in the sudoers file. Complete /var/log/auth.log is attached in file dbus 090920 but this extract shows the two dbus entries: Sep 20 10:38:42 ubuntu dbus-daemon: Rejected send message, 0 matched rules; type=method_return, sender=:1.41 (uid=0 pid=3492 comm=/usr/sbin/system-tools-backends) interface=org.freedesktop.SystemToolsBackends member=set error name=(unset) requested_reply=0 destination=org.freedesktop.SystemToolsBackends.GroupsConfig (uid=0 pid=3521 comm=/usr/bin/perl)) Sep 20 10:38:42 ubuntu dbus-daemon: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type=error, sender=:1.41 (uid=0 pid=3492 comm=/usr/sbin/system-tools-backends) interface=(unset) member=(unset) error name=org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied requested_reply=0 destination=:1.52 (uid=0 pid=3521 comm=/usr/bin/perl)) ** Attachment added: file /var/log/auth.log http://launchpadlibrarian.net/32107209/dbus%20090920 -- Creating an user destroys most of users and groups configuration https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/240437 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to liboobs in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 240437] Re: Creating an user destroys most of users and groups configuration
Background: I originally experienced this problem with an installed version of Xubuntu Hardy (8.04). I established that the Live CD had the same bug. As I do not wish to change my LTS installation at present, I have since tried Live CDs for Jaunty (9.04) and Karmic (9.10) with similar results. With Live CDs, the default user is ubuntu and sudo commands respond to an empty string as a password (). Following a fresh boot into the Xubuntu Karmic Live CD I have now set a user password for ubuntu with the following results: Use passwd command to change default ubuntu password from (null) to 123456789. cat/etc/groups confirms user ubuntu is in groups adm (4) and admin(115). ubu...@ubuntu:/etc$ sudo /usr/share/system-tools-backends-2.0/scripts/SystemToolsBackends.pl -m UsersConfig --platform ubuntu-8.04 -v; sudo /usr/sbin/system-tools-backends -nd begin::Start of work report. file_locate_tool_success::Found tool [uname]. file_run_pipe_success::Piping command [LC_ALL=C PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin /bin/uname -s 2 /dev/null |] for reading. file_locate_tool_success::Found tool [usermod]. file_locate_tool_success::Found tool [userdel]. file_locate_tool_success::Found tool [useradd]. file_locate_tool_success::Found tool [adduser]. file_locate_tool_success::Found tool [deluser]. file_locate_tool_success::Found tool [chfn]. file_locate_tool_failed::Couldn't find tool [pw]. ^C ubu...@ubuntu:/etc$ As default user ubuntu, created a new user test as detailed in post #24 above. Entered password of 123456789 when requested. No entry appears in Users Settings box. home directory for test is created. cat /etc/passwd now shows sixteen users, but new user test is not shown. cat /etc/group now shows same nine groups: (root, daemon, audio, nogroup, syslog, messagebus, avahi, haldaemon, ubuntu) sudo capability again lost. Passwords of both 123456789 and (null) are now rejected with message ubuntu is not in the sudoers file. -- Creating an user destroys most of users and groups configuration https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/240437 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to liboobs in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 240437] Re: Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor
Xubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) Alpha 5 (02-Sep-2009) Live CD Starting from GUI: Menu Users and Groups: Users Settings box shows no users. Select Click to make changes button, then enter (null) password. Manage Groups box is also blank. cat /etc/passwd shows expected full list of users (30) cat /etc/group shows expected full list of groups (58) Using GUI, add user test with UID of 1000 and administrator profile. Error message: The configuration could not be saved - an unknown error occurred. Error message: System policy prevents modifying the system configuration and requests a password for root. Try Passwords (null), ubuntu and root but none accepted! Note that this error identified as from org.freedesktop.systemtoolsbackends.set No entry appears in Users Settings box. However, home directory for test is created. cat /etc/passwd now shows only eight users, including the new user test: (root, daemon, syslog, messagebus, avahi, haldaemon, ubuntu, test) cat /etc/group now shows only nine groups: (root, daemon, audio, nogroup, syslog, messagebus, avahi, haldaemon, ubuntu) sudo capability now lost. Starting from terminal: Result are very similar to starting from the GUI with the addition of this terminal output... ubu...@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ users-admin (users-admin:3423): GLib-GIO-WARNING **: g_simple_async_result_complete() called from outside main loop! (users-admin:3423): GLib-GIO-WARNING **: g_simple_async_result_complete() called from outside main loop! (users-admin:3423): GLib-GIO-WARNING **: g_simple_async_result_complete() called from outside main loop! (users-admin:3423): Liboobs-WARNING **: There was an unknown error communicating with the backends: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. (users-admin:3423): Liboobs-WARNING **: There was an unknown error communicating with the backends: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. (users-admin:3423): Liboobs-WARNING **: There was an unknown error communicating with the backends: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. ubu...@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ Conclusion: Fault basically unchanged from that first reported. Should be re-opened. -- Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/240437 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to liboobs in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 240437] Re: Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor
** Description changed: Binary package hint: gnome-system-tools Xubuntu 8.04 Live CD Processor = AMD-K6 500MHz RAM = 311MB Menu Users and Groups: Users Settings box shows no users. Unlock button is greyed out with text this action is allowed. Manage Groups box is also blank. cat /etc/passwd shows expected full list of users cat /etc/group shows expected full list of groups Using GUI, add user test with UID of 1000 and administrator profile. No entry appears in Users Settings box. No home directory for test is created. cat /etc/passwd now shows only user ubuntu - cat /etc/passwd now shows only groups root, nogroup and ubuntu + cat /etc/group now shows only groups root, nogroup and ubuntu sudo capability now lost. Note that the number of users and groups deleted from passwd and group after using the GUI can vary. Xubuntu CD verified as good and this test works correctly on another PC with a 1GHz Celeron processor and 256MB of ram. Kubuntu 8.04 Live CD works correctly on AMD-K6 machine, with addition of users via GUI (kuser?) working normally. Conclusion - While Xubuntu is generally suitable for old hardware, some gnome system tools fail when used with the AMD-K6 processor. Both the live CD and an installed version show the same behaviour. -- Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/240437 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to liboobs in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 240437] Re: Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor
A similar problem has now been reported with Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex in forum thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1095007. -- Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/240437 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to liboobs in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 240437] Re: Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor
I have just received an email from Bug Watch Updater advising: ** Changed in: debian Status: Unknown = Fix Released Debian bug #433159 refers to network-admin: fails to display any information Debian bug #433159 now states fixed in libnet-dbus-perl 0.33.5-0.1 However, the users-admin problem detailed above persists with libnet- dbus-perl 0.33.5-1 which is the latest installed version for Xubuntu Hardy (8.04.2). -- Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/240437 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to liboobs in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 240437] Re: Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor
Using Xubuntu 9.04 Live CD: gnome-desktop-data is already installed. Try to install gnome-desktop-environment (including all dependencies) via Synaptic. Message; Some of the packages could not be retrieved from the servers - Continued Various errors occurred during installation, including no space left on device. Running users-admin from terminal and from menu GUI reports The configuration could not be loaded. You are not allowed to access the system configuration. Summary: Using the Jaunty Live CD I am unable to install gnome desktop, probably due to low PC RAM (311MB) and poor processor spec (AMD-K6 500MHz). It would be helpful if another Xubuntu user experiencing this problem (and with a better PC!) would try installing gnome desktop and then report progress here. -- Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/240437 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to liboobs in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 240437] Re: Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor
Dimitrios: I have retested this with the latest Jaunty (development branch) Live CD and the fault remains similar to my original report with Hardy. Run users-admin GUI from terminal... Users Settings box remains blank Manage Groups box remains blank Unlock button greyed out with tip This action is allowed Xubuntu 9.04 Live CD on AMD-K6 terminal output while adding user test via GUI... ubu...@ubuntu:~$ users-admin (users-admin:22640): Liboobs-WARNING **: There was an unknown error communicating with the backends: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. (users-admin:22640): Liboobs-WARNING **: There was an unknown error communicating with the backends: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. (users-admin:22640): Liboobs-WARNING **: There was an unknown error communicating with the backends: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. ubu...@ubuntu:~$ Note that no users are visible in box before or after adding user test. However, home directory for user test is now created BUT... cat /etc/passwd now shows only users root, ubuntu and test. cat/etc/group now shows only groups root and ubuntu. Numerous users and groups have disappeared from /etc/passwd and /etc/group after adding user test via users-admin GUI. sudo capability is now lost. -- Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/240437 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to liboobs in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 223055] Re: Focused checkboxes and radio buttons rendered as grey rectangle
Confirmed problem still exists with Kubuntu 8.04: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008061015 Firefox/3.0 -- Focused checkboxes and radio buttons rendered as grey rectangle https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/223055 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to epiphany-browser in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 88994] Re: Nautilus doesn't respect ACL when creating new files
Thanks for the suggestion Brian but it doesn't work on Dapper. Nautilus still keeps file permissions at 600 :-( -- Nautilus doesn't respect ACL when creating new files https://launchpad.net/bugs/88994 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 88994] Re: Nautilus doesn't respect ACL when creating new files
When creating a file in Nautilus 2.14.3 (Dapper) permissions are not updated as per the umask setting defined in /etc/profile. When umask is changed from default 022 to 002 this should give the group write access with file permissions of 664, but Nautilus maintains file permissions of 600. This causes problems when a group should have write access as a default. Please fix Dapper and later versions asap. Thanks. -- Nautilus doesn't respect ACL when creating new files https://launchpad.net/bugs/88994 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs