Bug 235484

I've removed the debug spew. But I don't know why your fullname would be
"Unknown". That means glib failed to parse your gecos field in /etc/passwd.

Can you show me the contents of your gecos field ?

Created attachment 152819 [details]
screenshot

Screenshot of what it's trying to do.

In this screenshot, I start 'gnome-about-me', and immediately hit 'close'. It
then tries to change something in my gecos, even though it read the name fine.
My entry is simply:

notting:x:2166:2167:Bill Nottingham:/home/notting:/bin/bash

I think there is several problems here.

One is that e-d-s and /etc/passwd are fighting about who is the primary source
for the gecos fields. Not much we can do about that.

Another is that the capplet does not let you change the fullname in e-d-s, only
in gecos, so they get out of sync. We should fix the capplet to set the fullname
in e-d-s, too. After all, evo can do it.

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Probably still a problem, reopening.

Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA.
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When I follow the steps to reproduce, I am not being asked for my password nor do I see any output in my terminal, using control-center-2.28.1-18.fc12.i686.  Should this be closed CURRENTRELEASE?

Yes, this works now.