Bug#418513: gnome-system-tools: Don't recognize root password

[Yannick Palanque]

Package: gnome-system-tools
Version: 2.14.0-3
Severity: important

Tools users-admin, network-admin, services-admin & time-admin don't 
recognize my root password. I do know the correct password (everything 
else works -- su -l, synaptic, etc.).

If I enter the correct password, users-admin launchs itself but I have a 
dialog box saying "The entered password is invalid / Check that you 
typed it correctly and that you haven't activated the "caps lock" key" 
(in french).

If I enter a wrong password, like "ndignidgn", I have the same dialog 
box asking for the password telling me that the password is wrong (the 
users-admin's window is not displayed).

My english is not very good, I hope I made myself clear. ;-)

Feel free to ask other questions for debugging, I don't know what else 
to do myself.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-k7 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-system-tools depends on:
ii  gconf2                    2.16.1-1       GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libart-2.0-2              2.3.17-1       Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.12.4-3       The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudiofile0             0.2.6-6        Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libavahi-client3          0.6.16-5       Avahi client library
ii  libavahi-common3          0.6.16-5       Avahi common library
ii  libavahi-glib1            0.6.16-5       Avahi glib integration library
ii  libbonobo2-0              2.14.0-4       Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0            2.14.0-6       The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                     2.3.6.ds1-13   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                 1.2.4-4        The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3               1.0.2-1        simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libesd0                   0.2.36-3       Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libfontconfig1            2.4.2-1.2      generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6              2.2.1-5        FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4               2.16.1-1       GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt11               1.2.4-2        LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglade2-0               1:2.6.0-4      library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.12.6-2       The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0         0.6.0-3        GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0               2.16.0-2       The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0         2.14.0-2       A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0              2.14.1-3       The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0            1:2.14.2-7     GNOME virtual file-system (runtime
ii  libgnutls13               1.4.4-3        the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgpg-error0             1.4-2          library for common error values an
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.8.20-7       The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                   1:1.0.1-2      X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62                 6b-13          The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libnautilus-extension1    2.14.3-11+b1   libraries for nautilus components 
ii  liborbit2                 1:2.14.7-0.1   libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.14.8-5       Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0                1.2.15~beta5-1 PNG library - runtime
ii  libpopt0                  1.10-3         lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                    1:1.0.1-3      X11 Session Management library
ii  libtasn1-3                0.3.9-1        Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.0.3-7      X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1               1.1.7-4        X cursor management library
ii  libxext6                  1:1.0.1-2      X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxfixes3                1:4.0.1-5      X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii  libxi6                    1:1.0.1-4      X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1              1:1.0.1-4.1    X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxml2                   2.6.27.dfsg-1  GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2                2:1.1.0.2-5    X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.1-3      X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  perl                      5.8.8-7        Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  system-tools-backends     1.4.2-4        System Tools to manage computer co
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.3-13     compression library - runtime

Versions of packages gnome-system-tools recommends:
ii  gksu                          2.0.0-4    graphical frontend to su
ii  gnome-control-center          1:2.14.2-7 utilities to configure the GNOME d

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