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george3

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Registered: 2015-02-13

Posts: 9

gnome 3 cannot useradd

Installed gnome 3
Cannnot add user account.

Jounalctl says: Dec 31 14:01:20 dell gnome-control-c[2402]: act_user_set_language: assertion 'ACCOUNTS_IS_USER (user->accounts_proxy)' failed

/etc/locale.conf
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8

[root@dell ~]# env
XDG_MENU_PREFIX=gnome-
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
GDM_LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
DISPLAY=:0
OLDPWD=/root
COLORTERM=truecolor
USERNAME=root
XDG_VTNR=2
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/run/user/0/keyring/ssh
XDG_SESSION_ID=c2
USER=root
DESKTOP_SESSION=gnome
WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-0
PWD=/root
HOME=/root
JOURNAL_STREAM=9:17336
XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland
XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=gnome
GJS_DEBUG_OUTPUT=stderr
MAIL=/var/spool/mail/root
TERM=xterm-256color
SHELL=/bin/bash
VTE_VERSION=5002
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=GNOME
XDG_SEAT=seat0
SHLVL=2
GDMSESSION=gnome
GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID=this-is-deprecated
LOGNAME=root
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/0/bus
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/0
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl
GJS_DEBUG_TOPICS=JS ERROR;JS LOG
SESSION_MANAGER=local/dell:@/tmp/.ICE-unix/620,unix/dell:/tmp/.ICE-unix/620
_=/usr/bin/env

Anyone any ideas?

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 19,113

Re: gnome 3 cannot useradd

ACCOUNTS_IS_USER (user->accounts_proxy)' failed
....
USERNAME=root

Would appear the software is not designed to be run as root.

bulletmark

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2013-10-22

Posts: 714

Re: gnome 3 cannot useradd

I thought I'd try to reproduce this but every time I click on the Details/Users button in gnome-control-center the window immediately locks up and doesn't respond to any mouse clicks. If I click a heap of times on the close button (from the GNOME overview) then eventually a GNOME force-quit dialog pops up. This is 100% reproducible, with or without any extensions running. There's nothing of note in the journal. Running up to date GNOME on Wayland.

Last edited by bulletmark (2018-01-01 23:14:31)

aartau

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Registered: 2017-12-26

Posts: 4

Re: gnome 3 cannot useradd

I had the same issue after installing Gnome: lock up upon clicking on Details/Users and needed to Force Quit to exit.  After one lock up/Force Quit, the problem went away and I was able to manage users.  The issue came back after rebooting (Details/Users locked up -> force quit -> normal behavior restored within Details/Users).

After a recent full system update, Details/Users now works normally.

Interestingly, the 'Cheese' application showed the same erratic behavior and appears to have been rectified after the system update as well.

May be worth running

pacman -Syu

bulletmark

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2013-10-22

Posts: 714

Re: gnome 3 cannot useradd

May be worth running

pacman -Syu

As I said in my post, my system is up to date. I update my Arch systems every day.

This is not a settings function people would often use so I suggest that many others would also see this problem if they tried it. I get this problem on my PC but trying it on my notebook (very similar Arch configuration), I get a longish delay but the user panel eventually appears. During the delay I experience the same "hang up" as I see on my PC. On my PC the user panel does not appear no matter how long I wait so the "hang up" lasts until I force quit.