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system-tools-backends package

  1. Bug #418690
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 418690

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David Henningsson (diwic) wrote : Re: cannot add user account using gnome-users settings

If that aids debugging, command "LANG=C sudo adduser test28" fails with:

Adding user `test28' ...
Adding new group `test28' (1004) ...
Adding new user `test28' (1001) with group `test28' ...
useradd: cannot lock /etc/passwd; try again later.
adduser: `/usr/sbin/useradd -d /home/test28 -g test28 -s /bin/bash -u 1001 test28' returned error code 1. Exiting.

So this is probably the same issue as bug #432964, but I still think gnome shouldn't show the new user in the GUI but instead show an error message.