Description of problem:

If you don't have the 'accountsservice' package installed, the user management module in Plasmas's System Settings won't work. It won't list your users, and the "+" button to add a new account will do nothing.

Launching it from the command line gets me this:

$ kcmshell5 user_manager
log_user_manager: "The name org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files"

Now, installing 'accountsservice', the problem goes away instantly, without even restarting the desktop session, or manually starting any services.

The thing is, I might have had accountsservice installed in the past automatically for whatever reason, I don't remember, but if I uninstalled it while cleaning up stuff I don't use, the package manager certainly didn't complain about user-manager requiring it to work. Maybe there are other ways user-manager could work that I don't know about, but doesn't seem likely. If there aren't, I imagine a hard dependency would be in order ;)

There are updates coming in to Plasma 5.8.1, which I haven't installed yet, but apparently there's no difference in this regard.


As an aside, there's the fact that the user-manager module won't complain about this in the UI, only as a stdout message on the CLI, but I imagine I should report this part to KDE.


user-manager:
http://madb.mageia.org/package/show/arch/x86_64/application/0/release/cauldron/name/user-manager

user-manager deps: http://sophie.zarb.org/rpms/b462e8add419dc44e66ad24780770ac1/deps

accountsservice:
http://madb.mageia.org/package/show/arch/x86_64/application/0/release/cauldron/name/accountsservice


Thanks!



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

 Version     : 5.8.0
 Release     : 1.mga6



How reproducible:

Everytime



Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install user-manager.
2. Uninstall accountsservice if it's installed.
3. user-manager is still installed and can be started, but won't show any users.