Bug 1130616

Summary:	Unable to remove user from system after login on terminal. UID is used by /usr/lib/systemd/systemd
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Robin Hack <rhack>
Component:	systemd	Assignee:	systemd-maint
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	20	CC:	johannbg, ksrot, lnykryn, msekleta, s, systemd-maint, vpavlin, zbyszek
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Description Robin Hack 2014-08-15 16:33:23 UTC

Description of problem:
Hi. I'm not able to delete user after his login.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
systemd-208-21.fc20.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. # useradd kromanonec
2. # set password for user kromanonec
3. $ switch to text mode. login will shows up
4. $ login as user kromanonec
5. $logout
6. # as root try to remove user:
# userdel -r kromanonec
userdel: user kromanonec is currently used by process 23033


Actual results:
userdel: user kromanonec is currently used by process 23033

Expected results:
deleted user

Additional info:

Comment 1 Robin Hack 2014-08-15 17:43:21 UTC

Additional info:
kromanonec    23033  0.0  0.0  44520  4132 ?        Ss   18:20   0:00 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd --user

Comment 2 Lennart Poettering 2014-10-24 13:13:12 UTC

*** Bug 1114026 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2014-10-26 21:47:19 UTC

As a work-around you can do 'systemctl stop user@`id -u kromanonec`'.

I'm not convinced that this is something that we want to or can fix, since there are various ways in which users are allowed to leave processes running around after logging out, and the admin simply has to take care of killing them before removing the user.

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Comment 5 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2015-06-10 17:34:01 UTC

Per comment #c3, I think that some manual action from the admin is expected.