[Bug 150864] User Management module can't be loaded in System Settings when "comment" field of an account includes an accentuated character

[Peter Colman]

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150864


Peter Colman pete mssint com changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Peter Colman <pete mssint com>  2008-11-08 15:07:43 ---
This module also fails if you have enabled the NIS Client (ypbind). A new entry
is placed at the end of /etc/passwd, without which the bind fails. 

extra line in /etc/passwd
+::::::

This causes a failure in the userconfig module (listing follows)
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Pythonize constructor -- pid = 389
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 8, in kcontrol_bridge_create_userconfig
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/userconfig.py", line 1735, in
create_userconfig
    return UserConfigApp(parent, name)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/userconfig.py", line 267, in __init__
    self.admincontext = unixauthdb.getContext(isroot)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/unixauthdb.py", line 74, in
getContext
    return PwdContext(editmode)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/unixauthdb.py", line 730, in __init__
    newuserobj._initString(line)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/unixauthdb.py", line 1018, in
_initString
    self._uid = int(self._uid)
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''
error: *** runFunction failure
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