So, yesterday I fixed bug 235351 in GDM where it would crash if /etc/passwd contained non-utf8 characters. Today I went to system-config-users to delete the test user I created yesterday and a few other test users I had on my laptop and it crashed, too. :-) The output is: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/system-config-users/system-config-users.py", line 46, in <module> mainWindow.mainWindow() File "/usr/share/system-config-users/mainWindow.py", line 269, in __init__ self.refresh() File "/usr/share/system-config-users/mainWindow.py", line 430, in refresh self.populate_lists() File "/usr/share/system-config-users/mainWindow.py", line 521, in populate_lists self.populate_user_list() File "/usr/share/system-config-users/mainWindow.py", line 461, in populate_user_list gecos = unicode (gecos, 'utf-8') UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: unexpected end of data The easiest fix is probably to add a third argument 'replace' to make it add unicode "i don't know what this" characters instead of throwing an exception. Or if you were feeling extra motivated you could try converting from some of the most popular encodings out there and converting to utf8, but that doesn't seem worth the effort.
Based on the date this bug was created, it appears to have been reported against rawhide during the development of a Fedora release that is no longer maintained. In order to refocus our efforts as a project we are flagging all of the open bugs for releases which are no longer maintained. If this bug remains in NEEDINFO thirty (30) days from now, we will automatically close it. If you can reproduce this bug in a maintained Fedora version (7, 8, or rawhide), please change this bug to the respective version and change the status to ASSIGNED. (If you're unable to change the bug's version or status, add a comment to the bug and someone will change it for you.) Thanks for your help, and we apologize again that we haven't handled these issues to this point. The process we're following is outlined here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/F9CleanUp We will be following the process here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping to ensure this doesn't happen again.
This bug has been in NEEDINFO for more than 30 days since feedback was first requested. As a result we are closing it. If you can reproduce this bug in the future against a maintained Fedora version please feel free to reopen it against that version. The process we're following is outlined here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/F9CleanUp
1.2.80 with the fix you outlined above is building for F10 right now.