2009/10/10 David Henningsson <launchpad....@epost.diwic.se>

> I have also encountered this bug and tried to nail it down. It seems
> like the following files have been left:
>
> /etc/passwd.lock
> /etc/passwd+
> /etc/shadow.lock
>
> I renamed these files and now I can successfully create users again.
>

Confirmed.
By removing these .lock files I can change my name, with usermod or
users-admin.
this also fixes my ability to start guest-session.

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usermod fails: "cannot lock /etc/passwd"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/432964
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