Comment # 13 on bug 1205783 from Stefan Hundhammer

OK, thank you.

So we need to find out why the entry is no longer there, and why we don't have
a fallback in just that case. The code from comment #9 looks fishy anyway:

  $character_class = ShadowConfig->fetch("CHARACTER_CLASS");
  if ($character_class) {
      UsersSimple->SetCharacterClass ($character_class);
  }

What if $character_class is empty? Then it remains empty, and the result is
what we ear seeing in this bug.