"users and groups" empty since upgrade

Thank you for your bug. Do you still have that problem? How do you run the tool? Do you have any error if you run it from a command line?

I have this too, not only with users-admin, but with services-admin too. In shares-admin it is even more obvious there goes something wrong, because it complains I don't have NFS and/or SAMBA installed, which I both have functioning well.

When started from the commandline with 'gksu users-admin' I receive the message below, followed by a perfectly looking users-admin screen, only it's empty.

floris@homeros:~$ gksu users-admin
(users-admin:1153): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed.

(users-admin:1153): Liboobs-WARNING **: There was an unknown error communicating with the backends: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)

(users-admin:1153): Liboobs-WARNING **: There was an unknown error communicating with the backends: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)

Looks like a dbus problem. Does "ps axu | grep dbus" lists something? Do other programs work fine? Could you try to run "dbus-monitor", does it work correctly?

Thank you for your response. I reloaded edgy back on my machine- I figured that I was'nt a good candidate for testing out feisty- Thanks Matt Ellers
p.s. I was using the GUI only

Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> wrote: Thank you for your bug. Do you still have that problem? How do you run
the tool? Do you have any error if you run it from a command line?

** Changed in: control-center (Ubuntu)
Sourcepackagename: control-center => gnome-system-tools
   Importance: Undecided => Medium
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs
       Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info

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"users and groups" empty since upgrade
https://launchpad.net/bugs/87805

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Closing for now then. Feel free to reopen with the asked details if you get the bug again

I have this problem, although not directly due to an upgrade. I had to reinstall 8.10 from scratch (upgrade from 8.04 was a bomb). I left my /home partition intact. I then attempted to restore my users' accounts and passwords by pasting lines from backed-up /etc/passwd, group, shadow, and gshadow files. I didn't replace the new file entirely from backup, just lines pertinent to my 1000+ uid users.

Overall the operation appears to be a success; my users can log in and their files and settings are intact. But there are some odd side-effects, like my primary login (uid 1000) was removed from the admin group in the process. I'm pretty sure I didn't do that manually, but I had to boot up in recovery mode to re-add it. I'm pretty sure my messing around with those four files caused all my users to disappear from that window.

So maybe I'm the bug in this scenario. [ducks.]

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