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gnome-system-tools package

Newly created groups don't show up in users-admin

Bug #549810 reported by Fabián Rodríguez on 2010-03-27

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #475974: [users-admin] Group Properties dialog sets GID to 0 on first launch. Edit Remove

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-system-tools

When creating a group using System > Administration > Users and Groups, once the tool is closed, going again into it the newly created group doesn't show up.

I tested this in Lucid and it behaves as expected.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Mar 27 15:49:45 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: wl nvidia
Package: gnome-system-tools 2.28.1-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.58-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-system-tools
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic x86_64

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Fabián Rodríguez (magicfab) wrote on 2010-03-27:

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komputes (komputes) on 2010-03-27

Changed in gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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komputes (komputes) wrote on 2010-03-27:

I can confirm this bug. In Ubuntu 9.10 add group using GNOME's users-admin (Users and Groups).

When a group is added though Users and Groups, it is not actually added.
deleted when exiting
Steps to reproduce:
1) Open users-admin (System > Administration > Users & Groups)
2) Unlock the application
3) Add a group
4) Close users-admin
5) Open users-admin
6) Click on "Manage groups"

What happens: group that was added is now no longer in the list
Expected: After adding a group it should still be in the list

I have tested this in Lucid and it seems to be fixed, however I feel that this is a basic enough system function that the fix (if possible) should be backported to karmic.

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Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan) wrote on 2010-03-28:

Actually, I think that's a duplicate of bug 475974. What happens is that the first time you open the group settings dialog, the GID is set to 0, and group creation fails. Just close and launch the dialog again, and it works. This is fixed for a long time with users-admin 2.28.2, but Karmic only has 2.28.1.

Sadly, I don't think somebody is going to work on a backport of the (trivial fix) now. Quoting Martin Pitt on the other report:
> If we have another g-s-t SRU in karmic, this can be slipped in,
> but I think it's not serious enough to warrant the effort of an SRU by itself.

Thanks for testing anyway, I believe that in Lucid users-admin will be much more reliable.