Version: unknown (using KDE 3.95.00 (KDE 4.0 Beta4)) Compiler: Target: i586-suse-linux OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.18.8-0.7-default When trying to change anything in the User settings (e.g. the Name) and click "Apply", A dialog pops up asking for my password (why that?). If I enter the password and click OK, the application freezes (no response, no redraw). In ps I find "chfn" to be a zombie (<defunct>) process.
The problem is a bit more incidious... I tried to understand what realy is passed to chfn. But in fact it seems there is an excessive conversion from utf-8 to iso8859-15. For example, set the name to : Raphaël Instead of pass the string in correct utf8 : 0x52,0x61,0x70,0x68,0x61,0xc3,0xab,0x6c It pass the iso8859-15 equivalent string : 0x52,0x61,0x70,0x68,0x61,0xeb,0x6c And then chfn is invoqued with binary char which seems it is unable to drop/handle... The result is chfn keep stuck and kcontrol loop forever waiting for something... kill -9 chfn process workaround the bug. The bug was worksform/reopen in 3.5.9 version here : http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77455#c7
seems to work with current 4.4 trunk SVN