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system-config-samba crashes /etc/libuser.conf': No such file or directory

Asked by jimhayes

Entering "sudo system-config-samba causes crash due to /etc/libuser.conf
not found. Terminal session below:

studio@studio:~$ sudo system-config-samba
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/system-config-samba", line 41, in <module>
    mainWindow.MainWindow(debug_flag)
  File "/usr/share/system-config-samba/mainWindow.py", line 118, in __init__
    self.basic_preferences_win = basicPreferencesWin.BasicPreferencesWin(self, self.xml, self.samba_data, self.samba_backend, self.main_window)
  File "/usr/share/system-config-samba/basicPreferencesWin.py", line 93, in __init__
    self.admin = libuser.admin()
SystemError: could not open configuration file `/etc/libuser.conf': No such file or directory
studio@studio:~$
*************** END of Terminal output ***********************

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subliminalfix (na1tr2lp-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#1

check your log around 181.???

079???

f1 f3 f5 f7

this is a patch i ran last night

peace =]

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J.Walk (desktophero) said : 		#2

I just did the following:

sudo su
touch /etc/libuser.conf
chmod 777 /etc/libuser.conf
system-config-samba

The appl worked fine after that. Note - I have not gone back to reduce the permissions on the file. I am sure 777 and root ownership is overkill, bad form. I am on a private VM playing with Ubu Server 8.04 32 bit.

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J.Walk (desktophero) said : 		#3

Interesting...the file appears to have no affect on the appl execution unless it is not there:

root@dellubu01:/etc# ls -la libuser.conf
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2008-05-10 17:05 libuser.conf
root@dellubu01:/etc# more libuser.conf
root@dellubu01:/etc# chmod 600 libuser.conf
root@dellubu01:/etc# system-config-samba
root@dellubu01:/etc# ls -la libuser.conf
-rw------- 1 root root 0 2008-05-10 17:05 libuser.conf
root@dellubu01:/etc# chmod 400 libuser.conf
root@dellubu01:/etc# ls -la libuser.conf
-r-------- 1 root root 0 2008-05-10 17:05 libuser.conf
root@dellubu01:/etc# system-config-samba

Even with no write permissions (chmod 000) i can add users through the interface without a problem.

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Urmel (thorsten-seidel) said : 		#4

I can confirm the behaviour.
The error occured on my system (8.04 64 Bit) as well.
After creating the file like J.Walk described, the error is gone.

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Adam Taylor (tochinoki) said : 		#5

I'm also having this issue in Karmic.

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Alcest (luckyluke6) said : 		#6

Almost 2015 and I had the exact same issue with Lubuntu 14.10

J. Walk's solution worked fine, thx.

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Cliff (vzd1s33v) said : 		#7

thank you J.Walk. My Samba GUI is now working in Kubuntu 14.

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Daniel U. Thibault (d-u-thibault) said : 		#8

This is utterly ridiculous. It's now been *seven years* and samba still does not install properly under Ubuntu 15.04 vivid (64 bits).

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Federico Leoni (effelle-gmail) said : 		#9

Ubuntu 16.04 and the bug is still here... Still the same solution:

sudo su
touch /etc/libuser.conf
chmod 777 /etc/libuser.conf
system-config-samba

Please have a look on it. Thanks!

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Scott Moore (scottbomb) said : 		#10

Has this program been abandoned? Here we are in 2017 with the same critical bug that should be so easy to fix. Is this abandonware?

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