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adduser package

  1. Bug #432964
  2. Comment #22

Comment 22 for bug 432964

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Tuomas Aavikko (taavikko) wrote : Re: [Bug 432964] Re: usermod fails: "cannot lock /etc/passwd"

2009/10/11 David Henningsson <email address hidden>

> I can reproduce the bug by starting rythmbox in the original session
> (and have it play something) and then try to switch to a guest session.
> At that point, my system locks up hard and I can't do anything but doing
> a hard reset (Ctrl-Alt-F1, Ctrl-Alt-REISUB does not work). After the
> reboot the lock files are present.
>

could not reproduce.
tested with totem & rhythmbox
one at a time, file was playing and launched a guest-session.
Logged out, and resumed the normal session fine with the file still playing.

> As a side note, this could be video driver related (I'm using open
> source ATI drivers), as a thin line of blue and green dots in the middle
> is all that's showing on the screen at that time.
>

Same here, radeon driver in use with HD3450