| Summary: | User Management module can't be loaded in System Settings when "comment" field of an account includes an accentuated character | ||
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| Product: | [Unmaintained] guidance | Reporter: | Jean-Paul Iribarren <jeanpaul.iribarren> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Sebastian Kügler <sebas> |
| Status: | RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | andrew.crouthamel, finex, pete |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Ubuntu | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
This module also fails if you have enabled the NIS Client (ypbind). A new entry is placed at the end of /etc/passwd, without which the bind fails.
extra line in /etc/passwd
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This causes a failure in the userconfig module (listing follows)
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Pythonize constructor -- pid = 389
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 8, in kcontrol_bridge_create_userconfig
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/userconfig.py", line 1735, in create_userconfig
return UserConfigApp(parent, name)
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/userconfig.py", line 267, in __init__
self.admincontext = unixauthdb.getContext(isroot)
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/unixauthdb.py", line 74, in getContext
return PwdContext(editmode)
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/unixauthdb.py", line 730, in __init__
newuserobj._initString(line)
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/unixauthdb.py", line 1018, in _initString
self._uid = int(self._uid)
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''
error: *** runFunction failure
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This module was developed by kubuntu. Please report it on uubuntu launchpad. I was wrong, this is part of guidance. Sorry. Hello! Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but this project has been unmaintained for many years and I will be closing this bug. |
Version: 0.2 (using KDE KDE 3.5.6) Installed from: Ubuntu Packages OS: Linux I work in the french subsidiary of an international company, and I am setting up a Kubuntu server machine (english language / french keyboard selected). I have used command-line utilities for creating user accounts for a couple colleagues, including the usual info: full name, login, temporary password... One such full name -- which goes to the "comment" field of /etc/passwd -- included an accentuated letter "é" (code 0xc3). Once it has been created, I haven't been able to use the User Management module anymore on this machine. System Settings kept on reporting that "user management could not be loaded". After a bit of Googling, I could find that I could run this specific module from a console by using "kcmshell System/userconfig". Below is the result of this test: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ jpiribar@samba3:~$ kcmshell System/userconfig Pythonize constructor -- pid = 10856 Python interpreter initialized! Pythonize constructor -- pid = 10856 Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 8, in kcontrol_bridge_create_userconfig File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/userconfig.py", line 1696, in create_userconfig return UserConfigApp(parent, name) File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/userconfig.py", line 267, in __init__ self.admincontext = unixauthdb.getContext(isroot) File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/unixauthdb.py", line 74, in getContext return PwdContext(editmode) File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/unixauthdb.py", line 727, in __init__ for line in fhandle.readlines(): File "/usr/lib/python2.5/codecs.py", line 626, in readlines return self.reader.readlines(sizehint) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/codecs.py", line 535, in readlines data = self.read() File "/usr/lib/python2.5/codecs.py", line 424, in read newchars, decodedbytes = self.decode(data, self.errors) UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 1425: ordinal not in range(128) Error in sys.excepthook: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/apport_python_hook.py", line 44, in apport_excepthook binary = os.path.realpath(os.path.join(os.getcwdu(), sys.argv[0])) AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'argv' Original exception was: Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 8, in kcontrol_bridge_create_userconfig File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/userconfig.py", line 1696, in create_userconfig return UserConfigApp(parent, name) File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/userconfig.py", line 267, in __init__ self.admincontext = unixauthdb.getContext(isroot) File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/unixauthdb.py", line 74, in getContext return PwdContext(editmode) File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/unixauthdb.py", line 727, in __init__ for line in fhandle.readlines(): File "/usr/lib/python2.5/codecs.py", line 626, in readlines return self.reader.readlines(sizehint) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/codecs.py", line 535, in readlines data = self.read() File "/usr/lib/python2.5/codecs.py", line 424, in read newchars, decodedbytes = self.decode(data, self.errors) UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 1425: ordinal not in range(128) error: *** runFunction failure ; jpiribar@samba3:~$ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When I examined the Python code, I could see that it was opening file /etc/passwd, and I could confirm (with hexdump) that the offending character (at offset 1425) was actually the accentuated "é" used in my colleague's full name. Next, I have used "sudo usermod -c <full name> <account>" to replace the "é" character with a non-accentuated "e", and the User Manager module is happy and running again. No big deal, but it takes some time to figure, especially considering that when it runs under a french environment, User Manager accepts accentuated letters in full names.