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gnome-control-center package

gnome-control-center hangs and behaves strange changing user's name in "User Accounts"

Bug #1034875 reported by Facundo Almeida
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Try this:

1- Open System Settings and go to the "User Accounts" section.
2- Add an user.
3- Log out and login with that user.
4- After having logged in, go to open System Settings and go to the "User Accounts" section.
5- Try changing the "user complete name". The entry for changing the username will behave in strange ways and the application will hang.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.4.2-0ubuntu7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-8.8-generic 3.5.0
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-8-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.4-0ubuntu6
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.320
Date: Thu Aug 9 12:22:52 2012
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha i386 (20120807.2)
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Facundo Almeida (facundoalmeida) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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psypher (psypher246) wrote :

Same issue, have installed latest updates as well. Unable to change mispelled username

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Logan Rosen (logan) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1029648, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

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