Thanks! From the logs, I don't see why it does not work. Could you run
sudo /usr/sbin/usermod -c 'Tuomas Aavikko' tta
and see if that works?
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2009/9/20 Milan Bouchet-Valat nalimi...@club.fr
Thanks! From the logs, I don't see why it does not work. Could you run
sudo /usr/sbin/usermod -c 'Tuomas Aavikko' tta
and see if that works?
t...@dv5:~$ sudo /usr/sbin/usermod -c 'Tuomas Aavikko' tta
usermod: cannot lock /etc/passwd;
** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete = Confirmed
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Good, we know have the original error. I don't know what can trigger
this, but the problem is not specific to the gnome-system-tools.
Please run 'sudo apt-get install lslk' and
lslk /etc/passwd
It seems that another process/user is locking the file, preventing us from
editing it. Sure, we should
2009/9/20 Milan Bouchet-Valat nalimi...@club.fr
Good, we know have the original error. I don't know what can trigger
this, but the problem is not specific to the gnome-system-tools.
Please run 'sudo apt-get install lslk' and
lslk /etc/passwd
It seems that another process/user is locking the
I'm running out of ideas then, that's not really my domain... Maybe
something in your configuration prevents usermod from locking the file,
even if no process is using it. Can you remember something you did
before user creation became impossible? eCryptfs could explain it if the
root partition was
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/32059964/Dependencies.txt
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Thanks for your report. I'd need more information to fix it. Have you
tried different Real names, i.e. do some characters trigger the problem,
and others not? Did you try changing the Real name of several users
(e.g. create a test user and try changing its Real name)?
If none of those tests bring
Trying to add new user with users-admin, the newly created user doesn't
exist after restarting the app.
then the output of when trying to change own name.
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