> but why did the last command attempted to delete my whole file-system?

Eek, sorry. I committed a guard against this to gdm-guest-session.

> + usermod -d /tmp/guest-home.WWF9RT guest
> usermod: cannot lock /etc/passwd; try again later.

This seems to be the root of the problem. Can you please give the output
of

  ls -l /etc/passwd*

? Perhaps there's something like a stale /etc/passwd.lock there?

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