[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2011-02-15 Thread Martin Pitt
** Changed in: system-tools-backends (Ubuntu Jaunty) Status: Triaged => Won't Fix ** Changed in: system-tools-backends (Ubuntu Hardy) Status: Triaged => Won't Fix ** Changed in: system-tools-backends (Ubuntu Hardy) Assignee: Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) => (unassigned) ** Cha

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2010-06-26 Thread Gerry Reno
Ok, if you think this is not related I'll be glad to open a new bug. I do think this is the same underlying problem though. Also: # apt-show-versions liboobs liboobs not installed (even not available) There is no such package. -- users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrite

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2010-06-26 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Please don't reopen a fixed bug at random. Why on earth do you believe this is the same problem?! None of the symtoms you describe is similar. It's not because it has high priority that people will fix your bug more quickly. As you said yourself, "I checked and /etc/groups did not appear to be over

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2010-06-26 Thread greno
Again more info. Don't know if any of this is related but here is messagebus group related info from /etc/group and /etc/passwd: # grep messagebus /etc/group messagebus:x:108: # grep 108 /etc/group messagebus:x:108: # grep 108 /etc/passwd messagebus:x:102:108::/var/run/dbus:/bin/false haldaemon:x

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2010-06-26 Thread greno
More info: # cat /etc/issue Ubuntu 10.04 LTS \n \l # uname -m x86_64 # apt-show-versions gnome-system-tools system-tools-backends gnome-system-tools/lucid uptodate 2.30.0-0ubuntu2 system-tools-backends/lucid uptodate 2.9.4-0ubuntu1 -- users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) ove

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2010-06-26 Thread greno
I am running lucid with system-tools-backends at 2.9.4 and am seeing errors trying to run any of: Time and Date Users and Groups example: $ users-admin (users-admin:12353): Liboobs-WARNING **: There was an unknown error communicating with the backends: Failed to execute program /lib/dbus-1.0/d

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2010-04-06 Thread Martin Pitt
Lucid has s-t-b 2.9.4 now, closing lucid task. ** Changed in: system-tools-backends (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/160862 You received this bug notification beca

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2010-03-16 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
The fix has been released with the system-tools-backends 2.9.3, which are not in Lucid yet (but as I said, that bug isn't really harmful there since we won't remove all groups if the configuration is empty). -- users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file https://b

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2010-03-16 Thread Martin Pitt
Chris, can you please upload the patch to hardy/jaunty/karmic and check whether it is in lucid? Thanks! ** Changed in: system-tools-backends (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) -- users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file https

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2010-02-28 Thread John Dong
Thanks for clarifying. That makes me sleep a little bit better at night :) -- users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/160862 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubun

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2010-02-28 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
John: That's why in Lucid the protocol has been completely redesigned to accept changes to individual groups/users. ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 522612 users-admin crashed with SIGSEGV in oobs_users_config_add_user() ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 522612 users

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2010-02-20 Thread John Dong
*cringe* ACK from ubuntu-sru for the 5bad3f... upstream git patch. Personal commentary, though, is IMO there's something fundamentally broken about zapping all the groups if the dbus backend dies. This seems to be a defective/fragile design to me. -- users-admin (System->Administration->Users an

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2010-02-18 Thread Pedric
** Attachment added: "users admin destroying groups and users" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/39363327/users-admin-authlog -- users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/160862 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2010-02-18 Thread Pedric
This happened to me today, and although I was able to restore /etc/group and /etc/gshadow, more things remain broken in my system, for example pulseaudio, networkmanager, bluetooth, policykit, consolekit and (maybe the root cause) dbus... My syslog is being spammed by pulseaudio failing and many to

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2010-02-12 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Master5597: If you want to help, you can just confirm that the fix I suggested actually fixes the bug in your box too, since I haven't checked Jaunty. You can simply make the change by hand from the link I posted above. Thanks! -- users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2010-02-12 Thread Chris Coulson
** Package changed: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) => system-tools-backends (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: system-tools-backends (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Released => Fix Committed ** Project changed: gst => system-tools-backends -- users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites grou

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2010-02-12 Thread Chris Coulson
** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu Hardy) Assignee: (unassigned) => Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu Karmic) Assignee: (unassigned) => Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu Jaunty) Assignee: (unassigned

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2010-02-12 Thread Chris Coulson
** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu Hardy) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu Hardy) Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu Jaunty) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu Jaunty)

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2010-02-12 Thread Martin Pitt
** Also affects: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu Hardy) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu Jaunty) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu Karmic) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- users

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2010-02-11 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
The fix (as linked aboved) is simply to ensure split() stops when it has 4 items. That way, we ensure we won't pass more arguments than the D-Bus binding expects, which prevents the script from dying. So the garbage gets packed in the last field, i.e. users that are members of the group. This is no

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2010-02-10 Thread Master5597
no Problem, glad i could help. i was also looking at the bug to see how to fix it, but since you've got it, i won't worry about it. btw, just for curiosity, what is the fix? -- users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/160862 Yo

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2010-02-10 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Rationale for SRU: discussed with Chris Coulson on IRC, since the patch is only one line, it's worth backporting to Hardy, Jaunty and Karmic. Intrepid is too close to end of life. This bug destroys the system from the point of view of most users, since it completely prevents from logging in. The or

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2010-02-10 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
You rock! Indeed, I had missed that tiny detail too... I must have been introduced by some buggy script, but this must have been fixed a long time ago without anybody noticing this had raised dramatic problems. So the main culprit here is our very vulnerable code, which did not even bother to cons

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2010-02-10 Thread Master5597
update: it's fixed, read more to find out how. ok i added those lines right before the return in get() in the /usr/share/system-tools-backends-2.0/scripts/GroupsConfig.pm file. although i had to change them to: &Utils::File::run ("echo Min: " . $$logindefs{"gmin"}); &Utils::File::run ("echo Max:

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2010-02-10 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Yes, I meant Users/Groups.pm. The syntax error is actually not a perl message: it comes from the shell because of the parentheses in "ARRAY()". But that's not an issue since we only want to get the message printed. Everything seems to be fine - at least groups are found and filled correctly. So I

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2010-02-10 Thread Master5597
even though my perl is a little dusty (haven't used it since college) this is my get in the GroupsConfig.pm. sub get { my ($self) = @_; my $groups, $logindefs; $self->SUPER::reset_counter (); $groups = Users::Groups::get (); $logindefs = &Users::Users::get_logindefs (); return ($grou

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2010-02-09 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Thanks for that very valuable information. It may still worth give a deeper look at this, since it seems to hurt people at random, and can still raise issues in Lucid (even if that doesn't destroy your system as now). So what happens is that the backends have a problem creating group structures th

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2010-02-09 Thread Master5597
Ok i tested this with my 64 bit vm, coped over all my files from /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ then ran the script below. after all the updates and installs the add user works as expected on that system. so i really don't know what's messed up with my (and other few other random people on the net's) s

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2010-02-08 Thread Master5597
ok I am still working on the vm, but the logs you had me run were interesting. the users-admin.log just had 40 copies of the line below (each one followed by a blank line): (users-admin:14023): Liboobs-CRITICAL **: oobs_group_get_gid: assertion `group != NULL' failed while the critical error c

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2010-02-08 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Thanks for the files. They seem correct to me. I don't think there's any special problem with your versions of gnome-system-tools and system- tools-backends either. An interesting hint is that you're using a 64 bits system. It may well be that the GID we send to the backends triggers an int overfl

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2010-02-08 Thread Master5597
** Attachment added: "cleaned group file" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38897666/group -- users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/160862 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is su

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2010-02-08 Thread Master5597
Actually it happens so far with any user name or password. it also happens with a Desktop user and a different user and password. So far it does it every time. So i don't think the 48 char password is the case. I'm setting up a VM at the moment to test it on a clean system. I'll report back when

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2010-02-06 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Master5597: do you mean you're able to reproduce this bug consistently when creating an user with a password longer than 48 chars? I've tried to get the same result with a Live CD of 9.04, and I don't get any problem. Could you attach your /etc/passwd and /etc/group files, possibly replacing userna

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2010-02-06 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
This bug was fixed in the package gnome-system-tools - 2.29.3-0ubuntu1 --- gnome-system-tools (2.29.3-0ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low * New upstream release (LP: #506365) - Move to new System Tools Backends protocol (new liboobs API). We now only commit changes to one user at

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2010-02-05 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
** Branch linked: lp:~ubuntu-desktop/gnome-system-tools/ubuntu -- users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/160862 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubu

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2010-02-05 Thread Chris Coulson
** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Fix Committed -- users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/160862 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2010-02-04 Thread Master5597
so what are the plans to fix this error for the 9.04 LTS version? or is it not reproducible for anyone else? i also found out that my other odd errors are from my mangled /etc/passwd file. what happened is that the System -> Users and Groups basically made my groups file the same as the one attac

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2010-02-03 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Thanks for your proposal, but as I said I think the changes in Lucid should have fixed that already, but they are too complex to be backported. So I can't help except advising people to switch to Lucid when it's released. If somebody ever reproduces the bug in Lucid I'll have to consider it, but I

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2010-02-03 Thread Master5597
i don't know if this will help but i just added a new user (already had root and my current user) via users-admin and it basically wiped my /etc/group file. it had 2 lines left in it. luckily i was able to boot in recovery mode and copy the backup at /var/backup/group.bak so that i could boot cor

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2010-01-18 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Telling us what version you're using would obviously have helped debugging. Anyway, this kind of behavior is not possible not in Lucid, the new version only changes groups, and will never remove them when creating/modifying an user. It would have been interesting to find out what's going on, but t

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2010-01-17 Thread duanedesign
I can confirm this bug is happening. I just spent a couple of hours diagnosing and helping a friend get this fixed. After it was all resolved we were talking and he mentioned he had accessed user and groups the night before. This resulted in his group file being reduced to 3 entries and prevented h

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2009-08-27 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Bubla: the procedure you describe does not completely destroy /etc/group. It removes all users from the admin group, making it impossible to fix the problem afterwards. But this bug has been fixed in the development version, and users-admin will now refuse to overwrite the existing group (just chec

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2009-08-27 Thread Bubla
Well, just create a new user named 'admin'. That's how you reproduce the bug. Be sure to have some sort of a rescue CD nerarby, though. This should be it, am I missing something? -- users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/160862

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2009-08-26 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Bubla (and others): the problem with this kind of serious bugs is that we don't know how to reproduce them, and so cannot fix them. If you find it so easy to reproduce it, please tell us how. Else we'll have to close the report, knowing that the bug will bite somebody one day. ** Changed in: gnome

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2009-03-13 Thread RogerP
Ubuntu 8.10 (Ubuntu Studio) -- Users and Groups just wiped my group file. I managed to find an old backup of the file but now everything else is broken: Wireless, sound; nothing has the right permissions to run. I go from a fully working system to a complete wreck just by adding one user. It took m

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2008-10-10 Thread Bubla
This is still an issue in Ubuntu 8.04 I don't know what kind of information you miss, what has to be done is clear - ban re-creation of group 'admin' (this typically happens when you create a user 'admin') and the problem is fixed. Otherwise all users except root loose their admin rights, that i

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2008-10-10 Thread Bubla
This is so easily reproducible that there can't be any doubt about this bug... ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => Confirmed -- users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/160862 You received this

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2008-10-10 Thread Bubla
This is so easily reproducible that there can't be any doubt regarding this bug... -- users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/160862 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribe

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2008-06-08 Thread Dierk Scharbert
Dear all, I'm using the current updated Version of Ubuntu I deleted an user wit admin-users. The an error message appeared like "root group can not be deleteed..." all Groups had been deleted from /etc/groups except the the group of current login user, the deleted user and root. Unfortunately I h

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2008-03-26 Thread Pedro Villavicencio
We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on t

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2008-02-28 Thread Basilio Kublik
Hi there Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with the development release - Hardy Heron?. It would he

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2007-11-07 Thread fishexe
this is the file that users-admin replaced /etc/group with ** Attachment added: "badetcgroup" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10306412/badetcgroup -- users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/160862 You received this bug notific