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gnome-system-tools package

  1. Bug #661272
  2. Comment #27

Comment 27 for bug 661272

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miyod (miyod) wrote :

I just encountered what looks like this bug, but it worked a little bit differently:
1) Attempted to change admin account's password (xxx to yyy) using Users and Groups. It was rejected for being too similar to the one to be changed.
2) Tried changing to an automatically generated password (AUTOGEN). Seemed to succeed.
3) Copy&pasted the automatically generated password and tried changing from that one to yyy+a space
4) Window hanged. I closed all other windows but no luck. Closing that window (leaving open the Users and Groups one) and reopening it showed it was still not responding.
5) Changed the password from AUTOGEN to yyy+space from the terminal. First time it threw an error (authentication token...). Tried again, success. Users and Groups window for my user started responding again.