users-admin retains info about deleted user

[Kevin O'Gorman]

I'm creating temprary users to diagnose a different problems I'm having. users-admin is making this harder. When I delete a user, not all info disappears and when I restart user-admin the "frakenuser" is back in the list of existing accounts, and survives multiple attempts to delete it.

In this case, I found entries in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. When I manually deleted them, the problem was solved.

Could it be that users-admin is confused by the situation where there are entries in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow, but no home directory exists?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gnome-system-tools 3.0.0-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-48.74-generic-pae 3.2.46
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-48-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.3
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Jun 24 15:48:11 2013
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120817.3)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: gnome-system-tools
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)