Bug#1114798: systemsettings: KDE system settings "users" widget didn't look in /home/* to get new user's uid and gid
Package: systemsettings
Version: 4:6.3.4-2
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
* What led up to the situation?
I installed Debian 13 without formatting /home. I created a new user using the
System Settings "Users" module. The module added the user to /etc/passwd* with
different uid:gid from the settings for that user's home directory. As a result
gdm3 and sddm locked up and wouldn't even return to their "select an account"
pages.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
Edited /etc/passwd to make uid:gid match settings for the home directory.
* What was the outcome of this action?
gdm3 and sddm no longer locked up.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
I had expected (or at least hoped) that the System Settings "Users" module
would look in /home/whomever and ask "a home directory exists for that user;
should I use uid and gid from the home directory when entering the account into
/etc/passwd* (with a default of "yes")?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.1
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 6.12.41+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/32 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages systemsettings depends on:
ii kio6 6.13.0-6
ii libc6 2.41-12
ii libkf6authcore6 6.13.0-1
ii libkf6colorscheme6 6.13.0-1
ii libkf6configcore6 6.13.0-2
ii libkf6configwidgets6 6.13.0-1
ii libkf6coreaddons6 6.13.0-1
ii libkf6crash6 6.13.0-1
ii libkf6dbusaddons6 6.13.0-1
ii libkf6i18n6 6.13.0-1
ii libkf6i18nqml6 6.13.0-1
ii libkf6itemmodels6 6.13.0-1
ii libkf6itemviews6 6.13.0-1
ii libkf6jobwidgets6 6.13.0-1
ii libkf6kcmutils6 6.13.0-2
ii libkf6kcmutilscore6 6.13.0-2
ii libkf6kiocore6 6.13.0-6
ii libkf6kiogui6 6.13.0-6
ii libkf6runner6 6.13.0-1
ii libkf6service-bin 6.13.0-1
ii libkf6service6 6.13.0-1
ii libkf6widgetsaddons6 6.13.0-1
ii libkf6windowsystem6 6.13.0-2
ii libkf6xmlgui6 6.13.0-1
ii libplasmaactivities6 6.3.4-1
ii libqt6core6t64 6.8.2+dfsg-9
ii libqt6gui6 6.8.2+dfsg-9
ii libqt6qml6 6.8.2+dfsg-7
ii libqt6quick6 6.8.2+dfsg-7
ii libqt6quickwidgets6 6.8.2+dfsg-7
ii libqt6widgets6 6.8.2+dfsg-9
ii libstdc++6 14.2.0-19
ii qml6-module-org-kde-kirigami 6.13.0-2
ii qml6-module-qtquick 6.8.2+dfsg-7
ii qml6-module-qtquick-controls 6.8.2+dfsg-7
ii qml6-module-qtquick-layouts 6.8.2+dfsg-7
systemsettings recommends no packages.
systemsettings suggests no packages.
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