[Hardy Heron Beta] Cannot create or update users using the GUI

[Fabrice]

Binary package hint: kde-systemsettings

Description: Ubuntu hardy (development branch)
Release: 8.04

Hello,

On Kubuntu hardy beta, It is impossible to create a new user or update an existing user trough the GUI (the useradd/usermod command line tool are working fine) : The create/update screen is not displayed.

Attached, the output of systemsettings when launched with the console

[Christian Mangold (neversfelde)]

I cannot confirm on latest hardy. Creating and updating via kde-systemsettings is possible without problems.

[Ralph Janke (txwikinger)]

The log included seem to indicate that the username includes a non-ascii character which can not be used. Could you please try the same with a username that has solely ascii characters and tell us if it still creates this error message.

Thanks

[Yuriy Kozlov (yuriy-kozlov)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 205487, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Fabrice (fabriceaemail-web)]

None of my users contain non-ascii character.
The system is a fresh install and the 2 users on the systems are :
- "fabrice" (created during the kubuntu installation)
- "joanna" (created using useradd when I saw that the screen was not working)

Moreover, I have the error not only when I try to update but also when I try to create a user. In this last case, It can not be an issue with the user name : the screen is not displayed, so I can not even enter the user name.

I am running a french version of kubuntu. If it is a character encoding issue, it is maybe coming from there. I know at least one more French user that has reported the same error on the ubuntu-fr.org forum.