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nightfrost
May 10th, 2008, 02:12 PM
Since the last set of updates (yesterday) from the -proposed repo, GNOME seems to fail to read /etc/passwd for users, or something like that. The GDM face browser shows no users, and the fast-user-switch-applet only shows the user logged in. How could I login you ask? Well, even though no users are shown in GDM, it works just fine to write the username and password to login.

What gives?

bapoumba
May 10th, 2008, 03:42 PM
Which package from -proposed?
These repos are for testing packages, usually to fix bugs, before they hit the main repos and updates.

nightfrost
May 10th, 2008, 03:53 PM
Which package from -proposed?
These repos are for testing packages, usually to fix bugs, before they hit the main repos and updates.

Yeah, I know. I was hoping to be one of the brave ones who would let the staff know about potential problems, but I blindly updated this time. I have another machine which I haven't updated yet, and the packages from -proposed that are ready to be installed there, are amongst others: evolution & a bunch of libs., bash, gnome-desktop-data, gnome-settings-daemon (the change log for these last two indicates trivial changes "make the background changes work when not using nautilus lp #214347), gnome-system-monitor, hal, libgtk, updatemanager.

So, I can't see what might have caused the problem...

Jst
May 11th, 2008, 10:18 AM
Downgrading bash solves the problem, so there must be a problem with bash.

bapoumba
May 11th, 2008, 10:28 AM
There are several bugs related to bash in Launchpad, maybe this one?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash/+bug/228931

There is a workaround:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash/+bug/228931/comments/2.

nightfrost
May 11th, 2008, 11:07 AM
Ah, thanks! I did search for it at launchpad but didn't find anything there.