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passwd and group entries are not removed on logout from a guest session Edit

Bug #1559513 reported by Jeff Norden on 2016-03-19

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1556516: passwd and group entries are not removed on logout from a guest session. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	lightdm (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

See bug #1556516 for details and a patch file to fix the problem.
I filed that directly, before I discovered ubuntu-bug.
This bug occurs for me using the mate desktop.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: lightdm 1.17.6-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-12.28-generic 4.4.4
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: MATE
Date: Sat Mar 19 12:31:19 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-03-08 (11 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64 (20160224)
SourcePackage: lightdm
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Jeff Norden (norden-jeff) wrote on 2016-03-19:

Dependencies.txt Edit (5.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
JournalErrors.txt Edit (20.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
LightdmDisplayLog.txt Edit (2.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
LightdmGreeterLog.txt Edit (1.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
LightdmLog.txt Edit (20.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
LightdmUsersConfig.txt Edit (451 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (103 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Jeff Norden (norden-jeff) wrote on 2016-03-19:

The relevant lines fromt the LightdmLog.txt file which is attached above are:

[+135.46s] DEBUG: Closing guest account guest-2kgkn2 with command '/usr/sbin/guest-account remove guest-2kgkn2'
[+135.67s] DEBUG: Guest account cleanup script returns 2048
[+135.87s] DEBUG: Seat seat0 changes active session to
[+135.87s] CRITICAL: session_get_login1_session_id: assertion 'session != NULL' failed