After update to 14.04 The user even vanishes from login screen -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1290785
Title: Users with big UID are invisible in login and Settings->User Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: 13.10 ===== What I did: - Install 13.04 - create user with UID 10203040 (works as expected on login screen and User settings panel) - update to 13.10 Expected - User available on login screen - User shown in system-settings Actual - User _not_ available on login screen, login with manually typed username works - User _not_ shown in system-settings What I did further - in /etc/login.defs set UID_MAX=99999999 Actual outcome - User _is_ available on login screen - User _not_ shown in system-settings 14.04 ===== What I did: - update do 14.04 Expected - User available on login screen - User _still not_ shown in system-settings Actual - User _not_ available on login screen, login with manually typed username works - User _still not_ shown in system-settings So now with 14.04 it is fully broken. Additional information ====================== 13.10 ----- $ apt-cache policy gnome-control-center gnome-control-center: Installiert: 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu45.2 Installationskandidat: 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu45.2 Versionstabelle: *** 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu45.2 0 500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy-updates/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu44 0 500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/main amd64 Packages 14.04 ----- $ apt-cache policy gnome-control-center gnome-control-center: Installiert: 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu56 Installationskandidat: 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu56 Versionstabelle: *** 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu56 0 500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status ---- ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10 Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu45.2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-18.32-generic 3.11.10.4 Uname: Linux 3.11.0-18-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2 Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Mar 11 10:56:39 2014 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-control-center InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-09-02 (189 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424) MarkForUpload: True ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=de:en PATH=(custom, user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=de_DE.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gnome-control-center UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2014-01-06 (64 days ago) usr_lib_gnome-control-center: activity-log-manager 0.9.7-0ubuntu4 deja-dup 27.3.1-0ubuntu1 gnome-control-center-signon 0.1.7~+13.10.20130724.1-0ubuntu1 gnome-control-center-unity 1.3+13.10.20131004-0ubuntu1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1290785/+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