Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (235 mails)

[Jiří Suchomel <jsuchome@xxxxxxx>]

On Monday 11 June 2007 12:19, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> On Mon 11 Jun 2007 17:41:36 NZST +1200, Ji??í Suchomel wrote:
> > If the user is logged, YaST refuses to delete it. This is intended.
> > However if the user you wanted to delete actually was _not_ logged in,
> > please file a bug report.
>
> I have seen something similar on 10.2, probably 10.1 and further back I
> can't remember. I have a script to create and delete users in a hurry,
> incl getting rid of their KDE and other temp stuff. When I log in as
> that user on another X11 console, log out and immediately delete the
> user, there is frequently a failure with userdel refusing to do anything
> much. There is no further process running owned by that user. The state
> is irrecoverable other than by reboot, or at least some overnight wait.
> I don't know whether this is even expected behaviour or how to reproduce
> it reliably, so I didn't write a bug report.

I don't know about userdel, but YaST uses "ps --no-headers -u <username>" to 
do the check.

> Volker

Jiri
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