This bug does not seem to be GNOME specific since the problem happens in usermod. Maybe KDE does not use usermod.
Have you tried running the usermod commandline from a fresh boot, i.e. before you tried to edit the user with users-admin? Maybe that's the program that is locking /etc/passwd (via the backends). As lslk did not return anything, could you try 'fuser /etc/passwd' too? -- usermod fails: "cannot lock /etc/passwd" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/432964 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.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
