Deleting a user and home directory fails
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
unity-control-center (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
Deleting a user with its complete home directory fails when using the gui!
Involved Source Package:
@1) lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release: 14.04
@2) apt-cache policy unity-control-
unity-control-
Installiert: 14.04.3+
Installations
Versionstabelle:
*** 14.04.3+
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
14.
500 http://
@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
tags: | added: ui |
tags: | removed: ui |
description: | updated |
tags: | added: trusty |
affects: | ubuntu → unity-control-center (Ubuntu) |
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