Bug 845079
| Summary: | When system-config-users is called the application starts and disappears immediately | ||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | bouzzi <bouzzi> | ||||
| Component: | system-config-users | Assignee: | Nils Philippsen <nphilipp> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security> | ||||
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 5.8 | CC: | bsingh, jbastian, nphilipp | ||||
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | Patch, Reopened | ||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||||||
| Last Closed: | 2013-10-07 01:40:01 UTC | Type: | Bug | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |||||
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| Bug Blocks: | 921048, 1002709 | ||||||
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This was reported and fixed with Fedora 10: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=235533 And the patch: http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/system-config-users.git/commit/?id=dd674ae82931cd9f5b93e2fa550a4befa8da0184 Steps to reproduce the error: 1. useradd -c $(perl -e 'print "Test\xf6"') testutf8 2. system-config-user Created attachment 603353 [details]
utf8 patch for rhel5 s-c-users
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated in the current release, Red Hat is unable to address this request at this time. Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to propose this request, if appropriate, in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This Bugzilla has been reviewed by Red Hat and is not planned on being addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, and therefore will be closed. If this bug is critical to production systems, please contact your Red Hat support representative and provide sufficient business justification. |
Description of problem: Here what in happening when system-config-users is called from gnome-terminal... [root@server ~]# /usr/bin/system-config-users Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/system-config-users/system-config-users.py", line 45, in ? mainWindow.mainWindow() File "/usr/share/system-config-users/mainWindow.py", line 266, in __init__ self.refresh() File "/usr/share/system-config-users/mainWindow.py", line 427, in refresh self.populate_lists() File "/usr/share/system-config-users/mainWindow.py", line 518, in populate_lists self.populate_user_list() File "/usr/share/system-config-users/mainWindow.py", line 458, in populate_user_list gecos = unicode (gecos, 'utf-8') UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 1-3: invalid data [root@server ~]# How do I fix this?