system-config-users hangs

Gene Lapointe gene at thelapointefamily.com
Fri May 4 14:08:33 UTC 2007


I've never modified that file, but i'll definitely check it when i get
home, has anyone heard of any other reasons that this could occur?

> Hi,
> Have you modified the file /etc/shells ?
> you should check that there is no empty line or no new line at the end
> of this file, these cause system-config-users to hang-up.
> Removing the last empty line, solved the problem for me.
>
> I encoutered this problem (if it's the same) which is already reported
> in bugzilla:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=209127
> This problem affect at least RHEL3 and 4, Fedora 5 and 6.
>
> Bye.
>
>
>
> On 5/4/07, Gene Lapointe <gene at thelapointefamily.com> wrote:
>> Hey everyone,
>>
>> I have a machine running fc6 and I haven't touched it for awhile.  It
>> was originally my desktop but I've set it up to be a LAMP machine as
>> well.  I was trying to add a user today using system-config-users, but
>> it never comes up.  I tried opening a terminal to see if there was any
>> output, but it just hangs.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Gene Lapointe
>> gene at thelapointefamily.com
>>
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