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[Bug 1414056] [NEW] Deleting a user and home directory fails

 

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Deleting a user with its complete home directory fails when using the
gui!

Involved Source Package:unity-control-center

@1) lsb_release -rd
Description:	Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release:	14.04

@2) apt-cache policy unity-control-center
unity-control-center:
  Installiert:           14.04.3+14.04.20140922-0ubuntu1
  Installationskandidat: 14.04.3+14.04.20140922-0ubuntu1
  Versionstabelle:
 *** 14.04.3+14.04.20140922-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     14.04.3+14.04.20140410-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

@3) I expected that users login account and home directory is deleted

@4) The users and his home directory was not deleted!
Error message displayed:
running '/usr/sbin/userdel' failed: Child process exited with code 16

** Affects: unity-control-center (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: bot-comment delete fails trusty user
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Deleting a user and home directory fails
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1414056
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