Quick update on what this bug is about.  I went through the
ProcStatus.txt file on this bug and all its duplicates, and they all
specify a UID of 999, which is below the default MIN_UID of 1000.

Now, accountsservice will ignore any user below MIN_UID, so you have to
actually log in as the user under that MIN_UID to get the crash.  But
this is difficult using lightdm, because it won't list such users by
default.  So enable manual login or use a different login manager.

There are some patches upstream to accountsservice to not use MIN_UID
like this (apparently MIN_UID is only supposed to be used at account
creation time, not as a way to check 'system user' status).  See
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/log/ (there are ~5 separate
patches for this issue).

I haven't tested these patches yet, but presumably they will allow g-c-c
to not freak out when trying to talk to accountsservice about the logged
in user with a less-than-MIN_UID uid.  Will test and report back.

** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu Precise)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Michael Terry (mterry)

** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #44408
   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44408

** Also affects: accountsservice via
   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44408
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

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