I had this problem with (1) the list if users on the login screen, and
(2) the list of users in the "user accounts" subsection of the system
settings after installing Ubuntu 12.04 on a Toshiba AC100 several days
ago, as described at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/TEGRA/AC100 .

Then, thanks to Jack Wasey's comment, I tried to solve the problem by 
installing the package from Debian -- 
http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/accountsservice (see also the changelog: 
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/a/accountsservice/accountsservice_0.6.15-4/changelog
 ).

First, I checked that the currently installed package doesn't include
the discussed fix. (Read "man dpkg" on how to get the information about
the installed packages, and on how to install packages from files.)
Then, tried to installed the Debian package by simply clicking on the
download link in the browser -- the graphical package manager reported
that it requires another version of libaccountsservice0. So, I
downloaded both package files, and ran dpkg to install them.

After that, the login screen correctly lists all the users. Good! That's
essentially all I wanted. Unfortunately, the "user accounts" subsection
of system settings crashes. (But I can use the usual commands to change
the password, add or delete users, etc.)

Now I think that the installation via "dpkg" might have left some broken
dependencies unnoticed, so I'd better use "apt" to install the Debian
versions of the package from the downloaded files; then I'd be sure that
the dependencies were checked.

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  Some users invisible/unusable

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