Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 76292
User manager does not open
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:04 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Description of problem: I am having problem with the user manager that is in Xwindows. everytime I click on it to open it nothing happens. all it does is bring up the question about authorization. asking if I would like to keep the authorization or for get it. I just installed linux on my Machine last night and I can't seam to figure out why the user/group manager is not working not working I have tried to run the redhat-config-user from the terminal commad window from xwindows and it came up with a segmention fault here is the fault /usr/share/redhat-config-users/redhat-config-users: line 4 1696 segmantation fault /usr/bin/python2.2 /usr/share/redhat-config- users/redhat-config-users.py the 1696 is a diferant number every time Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.click on user/group in the kde menu 2. 3. Actual Results: nothing happens Expected Results: It should have brough up the user manager Additional info:
I have also tried to delete my user password by typing passwd -d then the user name and it also came up with a segmentation fault that is all it said. I do not know if this has anything to do with the other problem or not but I do beleave the problem is related.
Have you edited /etc/passwd by hand? Also, did you specify in the installer or authconfig to use MD5 passwords?
I have loaded up the /etc/passwd in a text editor after I notice nothing would work but did not edit it. I do have tha ability to do so however. I have reinstalled linux 4 times and I tried it with and without MD5 passwd. I have also tried it with and without shadow passwd
I have also tried to edit the about myself in the control center and after typing in my passwd it came up with "unknown error" in a window and an ok button I wonder if all these problems are related.
My guess is that they are all related.
Ok, I can reproduce this crash if I select to not use MD5 passwords and shadow passwords during the install.
However, this is a libuser bug and not a redhat-config-user bug. To demonstrate, do the following as root: 1) # /usr/bin/python 2) >>> import libuser 3) >>> admin = libuser.admin() Segmentation fault. This bug is a dupe of bug 68245. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 68245 ***
I can reproduce the problem with or with out MD% or Shadow password. the things you wanted me to do as root. I do not get the error unless I have the MD5 password.