System-config-users wont stay open

[tytower]

when I open this it opens up greyed out for a split second then closes.

I started it in a console ,it did the same but the following was left in the terminal

[tytower@localhost ~]$ system-config-users
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/system-config-users/system-config-users.py", line 46, in <module>
    mainWindow.mainWindow()
  File "/usr/share/system-config-users/mainWindow.py", line 311, in __init__
    self.refresh()
  File "/usr/share/system-config-users/mainWindow.py", line 517, in refresh
    self.populate_lists()
  File "/usr/share/system-config-users/mainWindow.py", line 616, in populate_lists
    self.populate_user_list()
  File "/usr/share/system-config-users/mainWindow.py", line 574, in populate_user_list
    self.userStore.set_value(iter, 1, uidNumber)
TypeError: value is of the wrong type for this column
[tytower@localhost ~]$

Can someone tell me how to fix it please

[carempo]

I have exactly the same problem and I just found a solution for it but this requires you to modify the code of the program which is written in python:

1- you need to login using with the 'root' account, so open a terminal window and type:

su root

and then enter the password.

or if better if you can login using the 'root' in the GUI


2- the file you need to edit is at the following location:

/usr/share/system-config-users/mainwindow.py

open this file using any editor. I used gedit, but I used the GUI to do that.


3- at line 201 you will find the following statement:

self.userStore = gtk.ListStore(gobject.TYPE_STRING, gobject.TYPE_INT, gobject.TYPE_STRING,
                                       gobject.TYPE_STRING, gobject.TYPE_STRING, gobject.TYPE_STRING,
                                       gobject.TYPE_PYOBJECT)

this should be changed to:

self.userStore = gtk.ListStore(gobject.TYPE_STRING, gobject.TYPE_INT64, gobject.TYPE_STRING,
                                       gobject.TYPE_STRING, gobject.TYPE_STRING, gobject.TYPE_STRING,
                                       gobject.TYPE_PYOBJECT)

save the file and run "system-config-users" and it should work


the problem is that the user nfsnobody has a userid of 4294967294 which is too big to fit in an integer data type as the original code assigns for the userid. this modification assigns long integer data type for that field which allows that number to fit and get displayed. This problem will happens when you try to view all users.

[tytower]

Thanks a lot for posting
Thats what I did -view all users


I did in fact
yum erase system-config-users
and yum install system-config-users

which fixed it ,but I did not open view all users again
I notice that file is mainWindow.py and my updated file had that changed
You seem to know what you are doing. Thanks again