[Bug 240437] Re: Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor

2009-09-16 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
OK, you actually provided a few more interesting informations than before, and they that can help us debugging that. Does this terrible bug only occur when you enter an empty password to authenticate? What do you mean with: > Try Passwords "" (null), "ubuntu" and "root" but none accepted! You sho

[Bug 240437] Re: Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor

2009-09-16 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
** Changed in: liboobs (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Released => Confirmed -- Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/240437 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubunt

[Bug 240437] Re: Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor

2009-09-16 Thread Roger Miller
Xubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) Alpha 5 (02-Sep-2009) Live CD Starting from GUI: Menu Users and Groups: Users Settings box shows no users. Select "Click to make changes" button, then enter "" (null) password. Manage Groups box is also blank. cat /etc/passwd shows expected full list of users (30) cat

[Bug 240437] Re: Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor

2009-09-15 Thread Jonathan Thomas
Assuming fixed in Karmic due to lack of response. If this proves otherwise, please reopen. ** Changed in: liboobs (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Fix Released -- Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/240437 You received this bug notification because you ar

[Bug 240437] Re: Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor

2009-08-17 Thread Dimitrios Symeonidis
Upstream (Debian) has marked this as released. Can someone please confirm it's fixed in latest Ubuntu? Thank you, and good luck! ** Changed in: liboobs (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Incomplete -- Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/240437 You received t

[Bug 240437] Re: Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor

2009-08-12 Thread Dirk F
I can confirm similar behaviour with Intrepid Xubuntu and kernel 2.6.27-11. Initially, have the 1 user created at install time (member of admin, adm, etc). As this user launch the System>Users and Groups menu item. Select Unlock and authenticate. Add a new 'Desktop User'. On committing, the apple

[Bug 240437] Re: Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor

2009-07-29 Thread Roger Miller
** Description changed: Binary package hint: gnome-system-tools Xubuntu 8.04 Live CD Processor = AMD-K6 500MHz RAM = 311MB Menu Users and Groups: Users Settings box shows no users. Unlock button is greyed out with text "this action is allowed". Manage Groups box is also blank

[Bug 240437] Re: Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor

2009-04-10 Thread mc2008
I got my system back. It was also suffering from network being toasted (ipmasq starts up and fences system). Restarting ipmasq after the interfaces are provisioned (by hand) allows networking to work again. Network-Manager applet is a piece of crap and ping not permitted msgs are caused by ip

[Bug 240437] Re: Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor

2009-04-09 Thread mc2008
I have encountered something very similar to the Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid thread above. However, on Xubuntu 8.10. I found the passwd and groups files trashed (65534 on some IDs). I have all the latest patches installed, of which there have been a lot lately and perhaps this bug. I added /etc/udev/r

[Bug 240437] Re: Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor

2009-03-23 Thread Roger Miller
A similar problem has now been reported with Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex in forum thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1095007. -- Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/240437 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, wh

[Bug 240437] Re: Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor

2009-03-10 Thread Roger Miller
I have just received an email from Bug Watch Updater advising: ** Changed in: debian Status: Unknown => Fix Released Debian bug #433159 refers to "network-admin: fails to display any information" Debian bug #433159 now states "fixed in libnet-dbus-perl 0.33.5-0.1" However, the users-admin

[Bug 240437] Re: Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor

2009-03-09 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: debian Status: Unknown => Fix Released -- Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/240437 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists

[Bug 240437] Re: Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor

2009-02-24 Thread Roger Miller
Using Xubuntu 9.04 Live CD: gnome-desktop-data is already installed. Try to install gnome-desktop-environment (including all dependencies) via Synaptic. Message; "Some of the packages could not be retrieved from the servers" - Continued Various errors occurred during installation, including "n

[Bug 240437] Re: Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor

2009-02-23 Thread Dimitrios Symeonidis
i have installed xfce4 on my intrepid, and users-admin runs beautifully... I still find it hard to believe it's processor-related... can one of you please try the following? install the gnome desktop (without booting into it), and then try running users-admin again... i suspect some dependency on

[Bug 240437] Re: Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor

2009-02-23 Thread Dimitrios Symeonidis
possibly also related? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=433159 -- Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/240437 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 240437] Re: Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor

2009-02-23 Thread Roger Miller
Dimitrios: I have retested this with the latest Jaunty (development branch) Live CD and the fault remains similar to my original report with Hardy. Run users-admin GUI from terminal... Users Settings box remains blank Manage Groups box remains blank Unlock button greyed out with tip "This action

[Bug 240437] Re: Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor

2009-02-20 Thread Dimitrios Symeonidis
reassigning to the liboobs-1-4 package ** Changed in: liboobs (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: gnome-system-tools => liboobs ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #470123 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=470123 ** Also affects: debian via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepor

[Bug 240437] Re: Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor

2009-02-20 Thread Dimitrios Symeonidis
switching back to confirmed, importance medium ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/240437 You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 240437] Re: Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor

2009-02-19 Thread Ney Senna
Dimitrios This is still an issue for me because in my work we only upgrade from a LTS (Long Term Suport) to another LTS. We have more then 4.000 stations, and can't upgrade always, it's hard. Then we will upgrade only to 10.4 LTS. Thanks. -- Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor https://bugs

[Bug 240437] Re: Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor

2009-02-19 Thread Dimitrios Symeonidis
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance. -- Users-adm

[Bug 240437] Re: Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor

2008-08-15 Thread Ney Senna
Hi, I have this problem too, but only in work, in my house this NOT happen. Only In work, i use authentication with LDAP. The result of the process: USER PID %CPU %MEMVSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 7093 0.1 1.1 13664 11956 ?S10:38 0:00 /usr/bin/pe

[Bug 240437] Re: Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor

2008-08-12 Thread Nicholas Allen
I have just experienced this bug without AMD hardware. So this is nothing spcecific to AMD processor. users-admin is a completely broken piece of rubbish! The system is hosed after using it and can't even reboot. That a bug like this can exist is bad enough (is there so little testing done prior to

[Bug 240437] Re: Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor

2008-07-03 Thread Roger Miller
Just to check, I tried the Gutsy Xubuntu Live CD today on the AMD-K6 machine and found that the users-admin GUI seemed to work as expected. The "Users settings" box only lists root and the properties appear OK but it does not show the user "ubuntu". The "Manage Groups" box shows the expected full

[Bug 240437] Re: Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor

2008-07-02 Thread Roger Miller
Thanks for the help Chris. Attached file "testresults 080702" sequentially shows the outcome of the tests however I am unsure about how to interpret the logs regarding this investigation. I don't quite understand how to look for the "process with the command line '/usr/bin/perl /usr/share//system

[Bug 240437] Re: Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor

2008-07-01 Thread Chris Coulson
Also bare in mind that the 'In Progress' status for a bug report is a special status meaning it has been assigned to a developer and they are actively working on fixing it. ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Status: In Progress => Incomplete -- Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 proces

[Bug 240437] Re: Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor

2008-07-01 Thread Chris Coulson
Sorry for the delay in getting back. First of all, could you try the following in a terminal: 1) apt-get source system-tools-backends 2) cd system-tools-backends-2.6.0 3) ./test-backends.in UsersConfig ...and post the output Also, could you have a look for any errors in /var/log/syslog or /var/l

[Bug 240437] Re: Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor

2008-06-28 Thread Roger Miller
** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => In Progress -- Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/240437 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing

[Bug 240437] Re: Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor

2008-06-27 Thread Roger Miller
Xubuntu 8.04 Live CD on AMD-K6 terminal output while adding user "test" via GUI... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ users-admin (users-admin:8184): Liboobs-WARNING **: There was an unknown error communicating with the backends: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not

[Bug 240437] Re: Users-admin fails with AMD-K6 processor

2008-06-26 Thread Chris Coulson
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately we can't fix it, because your description didn't include enough information. You may find it helpful to read "How to report bugs effectively" http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html. We'd