Session Menu

Blank entry in switch user account menu

Bug #872908 reported by Jamal Fanaian on 2011-10-12

This bug affects 5 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Session Menu	Fix Committed	Medium	Unassigned
	indicator-session (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

An account with no name (only a username) will show a row in the Switch User Account menu with a face icon, but no name.

To reproduce:

1. From a terminal, create a new account using adduser: adduser testing
2. Enter a password twice
3. Leave the optional values as the default by pressing enter (Full Name, Room Number, etc.)
4. Open the switch user account menu, and notice the blank entry

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: unity 4.22.0-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,resize,grid,compiztoolbox,place,mousepoll,move,imgpng,wall,vpswitch,regex,gnomecompat,session,unitymtgrabhandles,snap,animation,expo,fade,scale,workarounds,ezoom,unityshell]
Date: Wed Oct 12 10:57:24 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-11 (0 days ago)

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Related branches

lp://staging/~robert-ancell/indicator-session/blank-username

Merged into lp://staging/indicator-session/14.04 at revision 425

Ted Gould (community): Approve on 2014-01-22

PS Jenkins bot (community): Approve (continuous-integration) on 2013-12-19

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Jamal Fanaian (jamalta) wrote on 2011-10-12:

Dependencies.txt Edit (5.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GconfCompiz.txt Edit (37.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2011-10-12:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks) on 2011-10-25

Changed in unity:
status:	New → Confirmed

Omer Akram (om26er) on 2012-06-27

no longer affects:	unity (Ubuntu)
affects:	unity → indicator-session

Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) on 2013-12-19

Changed in indicator-session:
status:	Confirmed → Triaged
importance:	Undecided → Medium

Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) on 2013-12-19

Changed in indicator-session:
status:	Triaged → In Progress
assignee:	nobody → Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote on 2013-12-19:

I've updated the spec to use the login name in this case.
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SessionMenu?action=diff&rev2=18&rev1=16>

I've included the pathological case where account A has a full name identical to the login name of account B that has an empty/whitespace full name.

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PS Jenkins bot (ps-jenkins) wrote on 2014-01-22:

Fix committed into lp:indicator-session at revision None, scheduled for release in indicator-session, milestone Unknown

Changed in indicator-session:
status:	In Progress → Fix Committed

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2014-01-24:

This bug was fixed in the package indicator-session - 12.10.5+14.04.20140124-0ubuntu1

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indicator-session (12.10.5+14.04.20140124-0ubuntu1) trusty; urgency=low

  [ Robert Ancell ]
  * Recommend yelp, gnome-control-center and gnome-control-center-signon
    since we try and launch these applications.
  * Use username as label if the real name is empty or whitespace. (LP:
    #872908)
  * Use unity-control-center if it is available. (LP: #1257505)

  [ Sebastien Bacher ]
  * clean out the extra-sessions directory, it's a leftover.
  * drop unused cmake file, it refears to geary and doesn't seem useful
    there.

[ Ubuntu daily release ]
* Automatic snapshot from revision 426
-- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Fri, 24 Jan 2014 11:02:01 +0000