Deleting a user and home directory fails

Bug #1414056 reported by Zippo
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unity-control-center (Ubuntu)
Invalid
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Bug Description

Deleting a user with its complete home directory fails when using the gui!

Involved Source Package:unity-control-center

@1) lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release: 14.04

@2) apt-cache policy unity-control-center
unity-control-center:
  Installiert: 14.04.3+14.04.20140922-0ubuntu1
  Installationskandidat: 14.04.3+14.04.20140922-0ubuntu1
  Versionstabelle:
 *** 14.04.3+14.04.20140922-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     14.04.3+14.04.20140410-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

@3) I expected that users login account and home directory is deleted

@4) The users and his home directory was not deleted!
Error message displayed:
running '/usr/sbin/userdel' failed: Child process exited with code 16

Zippo (peter-henninger)
tags: added: ui
tags: removed: ui
description: updated
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tags: added: bot-comment
tags: added: trusty
affects: ubuntu → unity-control-center (Ubuntu)
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Zippo (peter-henninger) wrote :

Sorry this report is obsolete
Zippo

Changed in unity-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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