Comment 8 for bug 234473

That would be a different bug then. Could you paste here the line from /etc/passwd which was the problem? National characters shouldn't be an issue as long as they are in UTF-8; if they aren't, then some strange tool must have gone wrong when writing to it.

Closing the bug since in Lucid we no longer remove all users and groups when reading configuration fails. In Hardy we can't do this, but at least bug 160862 has a task for that, and it may well fix the same problem.