[Bug 432964] Re: System crash in guest session locks /etc/passwd forever

[Milan Bouchet-Valat]

Check with 'mount' that / isn't mounted read-only. The best option is
probably to set a root password by running 'passwd' as root user in
recovery mode, and then to reboot in normal mode, log in as root, and
add your user to the sudoers group.

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Title:
  System crash in guest session locks /etc/passwd forever

Status in “adduser” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “shadow” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gnome-system-tools

  Trying to change real name, Name changes. re-launching users-admin,
  the real name is not applied. will revert to one set in original
  installation.

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sat Sep 19 12:02:19 2009
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  Package: gnome-system-tools 2.27.3-0ubuntu1
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.34-generic
  SourcePackage: gnome-system-tools
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic x86_64

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