users-admin suddelny emptied! users in /etc/group
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Low
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: gnome-system-tools
2.18.1-0ubuntu1 (feisty)
after adding a user and modifying group relations, the users-admin didnt start again (without reboot)
trying to figure out what happend i tried to sudo to root, and it sayed your not allowed !
After rebooting with a knoppix cd, i figured out /etc/group was emptied (groupnames in there as in gshadow, but no users that belong to any group!)
To workaround, i inserted myself into group admin again, rebooted, and then used the users-admin to add the three users which are using the system in the regual groups feistys users-admin permission tab gives me.
I think there were other (system) users (like lp) that did belong to a group, but i no longer have the possibility to check how it was before, because group- is just one step back, and there were already all group relations gone.
Personal Question: how should a clean group file look like, or where do i get one, to reintegrate systemuser to systemgroups relations ?
additionaly the pulse-audio parts now complain about something like
(this is from meld (graphical file and directory compare, but not limited to that)
main.c: WARNING: called SUID root, but not in group 'pulse-rt' c:1351: (_snd_pcm_ hw_open) Invalid value for card
ALSA lib pcm_hw.