Comment 1 for bug 544570
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| Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan) wrote Re: Changing Password Hangs, Corrupts User Account Password | #1 |
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Confirmed. This doesn't occur everytime, but for some weird reason the dialog hangs, and the password is set to something such as:
$6$X/OldoQr$
which seems to be invalid because running 'passwd' doesn't ask for the old password. It's likely that something is going wrong while users-admin runs 'passwd' in the background.
I could not reproduce the problem with gnome-about-me nor direct use of 'passwd', but I wasn't able to reproduce the problem twice with users-admin either.
But how the hell have you discovered this bug? Are you trying to get developers mad? ;-) I set priority to Medium only because it's very unlikely users will ever trigger this bug.
Note to reporter to fix his system: just run 'sudo passwd $USERNAME' if you're able to log in from another admin, or run this command from the recovery mode (choice at boot). Then setting the password to its last valid value may fix the eCryptfs issue too.