So your system isn't broken, it's just that adduser doesn't interact
well with automount. I'm not sure why this doesn't work (i.e. why /home
isn't mounted when adduser tries to access it), nor if it should work.
But that's not a bug in users-admin. You could report a bug against
adduser in Debian (
Per your request / suggestion:
sudo /usr/sbin/adduser --gecos --disabled-password bugta
[sudo] password for administ:
Adding user `bugta' ...
Adding new group `bugta' (1001) ...
Adding new user `bugta' (1001) with group `bugta' ...
Creating home directory `/home/bugta' ...
Stopped: Couldn't creat
Thanks! The interesting part is:
file_run_full_failed::Command [/usr/sbin/adduser --gecos --disabled-password
bugta] failed.
Since the user wasn't created, everything else fails.
What do you get when you run:
sudo /usr/sbin/adduser --gecos --disabled-password bugta
in a terminal? You'll get the
I apologize for not attaching the files the second time.
Now I seem to have a bigger problem, it will not let me add an account.
I have been continuing to configure my system, but I don't know
(obviously) what I did wrong. In general I have edited various
configuration files and merged them from
Le dimanche 02 janvier 2011 à 22:58 +, RnSC a écrit :
> Following up, new system. Gave up on getting 10.04 video to work on my
> system (another story), switched to 10.10.
>
> Created a user named "bugta", user 1001, group 1001.
>
> Tried to use System / Administration / Users and Groups to
Following up, new system. Gave up on getting 10.04 video to work on my
system (another story), switched to 10.10.
Created a user named "bugta", user 1001, group 1001.
Tried to use System / Administration / Users and Groups to change the
home directory of bugta from /home to /lhome. lhome pre-ex
usermod always fails when trying to change the home for an active user.
This is very reasonable since many files are likely to be open, so
moving/removing them will fail.
I've changed users-admin upstream to disable the home dir field and show
and explanation notice in that case. This will be pres
sudo /usr/sbin/usermod -d /newdir/administ -g 1000 -l administ -s
/bin/bash -u 1000 administ > 2010-11-14-1455.log 2>&1
Nothing comes out on stdout, the following comes out on stderr:
usermod: user administ is currently logged in
So perhaps that is the problem. It did work in 0810, even when I
No need to attach the empty file, obviously it's enough to say it
doesn't contain anything... ;-)
Nothing weird seems to be done by the backends, so the problem may come from a
configuration issue on your system. Could you paste here the output of:
sudo /usr/sbin/usermod -d /newdir/administ -g 10
It will not let me upload an empty file, it removed it and posted the
comment without an attachement. (Probably not news to you, but thought
I should clearly document what is going on here). Thanks.
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"users and groups" home directory change does not "take"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/6665
users-admin.log is zero length. There is no mistake here.
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"users and groups" home directory change does not "take"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/666555
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Sorry for the delay. Boy, that was easy. I did the following:
Started the two processes in the two consoles, per the directions.
mkdir /newdir
Selected the "administ" account
Pressed the [Advanced Settings] button
Selected the "Advanced" tab
Change the home directory from "/lhome/administ" to "/
Will try to do tonight, may be a few days. I have fiddled with 10.04 before
also. This is at least the second, perhaps the third or fourth clean install
with this behavior. I just shrugged it off that I must have done something
wrong in the past, but this time I was prepared and very meticulo
Interesting... Indeed, doesn't seem to be a duplicate of bug 659758,
which is only about newly created users (and about which I know the root
cause).
Please follow the instructions at :
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingGnomeSystemTools#For%20Users%20[users-admin]
and attach the information here. T
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