system-config-samba.py fails to start due to missing /etc/libuser.conf Utopic

[Sergio Schneider]

system-config-samba.py fails to start due to missing /etc/libuser.conf
"sudo touch /etc/libuser.conf" as suggested above fix it.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Etienne URBAH (eurbah)]

Reference = bug #214959

[Flávio Oliveira (oliveiradeflavio)]

system-config-samba
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/system-config-samba", line 45, in <module>
    mainWindow.MainWindow(debug_flag)
  File "/usr/share/system-config-samba/mainWindow.py", line 121, in __init__
    self.basic_preferences_win = basicPreferencesWin.BasicPreferencesWin(self, self.xml, self.samba_data, self.samba_backend, self.main_window)
  File "/usr/share/system-config-samba/basicPreferencesWin.py", line 97, in __init__
    self.admin = libuser.admin()
SystemError: could not open configuration file `/etc/libuser.conf': Arquivo ou diretório não encontrado

[Flávio Oliveira (oliveiradeflavio)]

Guys, just created the configuration file (libuser.conf) in / etc / folder
and then returned to work the system-config-samba

[raydar (raydar)]

To confirm what Flavio found, executing the following fixed the problem for me:

sudo touch /etc/libuser.conf

[Etienne URBAH (eurbah)]

This bug is still present in system-config-samba version 1.2.63-0ubuntu6 from 'Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Beta1'.

[Rodrigo Trujillo (rodrigo-trujillo)]

This problem is affecting the project Ginger:
 https://github.com/kimchi-project/ginger

It uses "python-libuser", which is failing because libuser , or libuser1, misses libuser.conf

Reference:
https://github.com/kimchi-project/ginger/issues/22

[Zero (zerofossilfuel)]

Performed a clean install of Wily. Ref 214959, this bug is back. 'sudo touch /etc/libuser.conf' corrects the problem. This bug report is over a year old?

[Max-Ulrich Farber (maxulrichfarber)]

Yes, it is. And it would be so easy to fix!

[pst007x (turone)]

Still an issue in 15.10

 :(

[Luis Andrés Gonzalez (luisandresgonzalez)]

It's been a problem since 2008!
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/31292
@zerofossifuel 's solution worked on 15.10.

[Max-Ulrich Farber (maxulrichfarber)]

Still an issue in 16.04 LTS! :(

This is utterly ridiculous. It's now been *eight years* and system-config-samba still does not install properly under Ubuntu 16.04 LTS!

@zerofossifuel 's workaround worked on 16.04 too.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package libuser - 1:0.62~dfsg-0.1ubuntu1

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libuser (1:0.62~dfsg-0.1ubuntu1) yakkety; urgency=medium

  * Build-depend on hardening-wrapper to support the 'hardening' build flag.

 -- Steve Langasek <email address hidden> Sat, 09 Jul 2016 22:42:44 -0700

[Matteo Seclì (matteosecli)]

Confirmed in Ubuntu 16.04.1. libuser1 1:0.62~dfsg-0.1ubuntu1 does not fix the problem for me.

[Leipero (lei-pero)]

Also Ubuntu 16.04.1, problem is still there.

The old solution of "sudo touch /etc/libuser.conf" as others mentioned solves the problem.

[bugproxy (bugproxy)]

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2016-10-03 14:00 EDT-------
The solution given by Steve Langasek was applied to 16.10

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2016-10-03 14:01 EDT-------
I have just tested this on 16.10 with libuser 1:0.62~dfsg-0.1ubuntu1, and it worked.

[Bruno Nova (brunonova)]

Here's a patch to fix this bug in system-config-samba.
It's in quilt format, so you should be able to just "quilt import" it into the package.

The patch is just a workaround that will modify /usr/sbin/system-config-samba to create the missing file automatically if it doesn't exist.

I hope this bug (which is marked as **High** importance!) is fixed soon.

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

The attachment "07_libuser.patch" seems to be a patch. If it isn't, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and if you are a member of the ~ubuntu-reviewers, unsubscribe the team.

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[Max-Ulrich Farber (maxulrichfarber)]

I hope a patched version will soon be present in the repositories for all supported Ubuntu versions. I wonder how such an easy thing could take such a long time!

[Bruno Nova (brunonova)]

It's probably because system-config-samba is in the "universe" repository, and thus community maintained. It's still sad, though.
If the patch doesn't reach the official repositories, I'll put it in a PPA.

[Bruno Nova (brunonova)]

PPA created here: https://launchpad.net/~brunonova/+archive/ubuntu/patched-system-config-samba

[Jack Howarth (jwhowarth)]

Why not take the path of least resistance here? Just make the system-config-samba have an dependency on the installation of the libuser package and the problem goes away, no? It certainly worked for me tonight with a fresh installation of 16.10.

Note from...

http://packages.ubuntu.com/yakkety/system-config-samba

and

http://packages.ubuntu.com/yakkety/python-libuser

I see a dependency on libusr1 in python-libuser, but no dependencies on libusr which seems absurd.

[Scott Moore (scottbomb)]

Is this bug EVER going to be fixed?

[Pavlos Kairis (kairis)]

bug exists in 18.04 (bionic) as well. touch /etc/libuser.conf fixes it.