Error deleting a user

[bsawler]

Hi,

I am logged into Version2.0 Community as admin and when I try deleting one particular user I get the following error:

   
Unable to delete the User object associated with the Person. This is not an error if an external authentication mechanism such as NTLM was previously active.
Failed to delete User due to error: Failed to parse query: TYPE:\{http\://www.alfresco.org/model/content/1.0\}person +@cm\:userName:""‍‍‍

Is there a simple fix? 

Thanks,
Bradley

[alexander]

Did you do a LDAP import? If yes, that is not an error, just an info.

[bsawler]

No I did not do any imports.  By mistake I added the user with a user space on the Company Home and not User Home, therefore I deleted the space, and tried to delete the user so I can re-create the user, but I cannot delete the user and now I have a <user> and a <user1> on the system, and it really confuses the other users of the system.

[andy]

Hi

Which locale are you using and is it the same as the default locale of the server. If not, try deleting the user using the default locale (there was a bug in this area - usernames were localised …)

Andy

[bsawler]

Sorry Andy, I am not sure what you mean by "locale"

I checked locale in wikiepedia and they lost me after the first sentence.

I was trying to delete the user as "admin" from a client machine, and now tried deleting the user at the server where alfresco is installed and got the same error.  The name of the server is "server".

Thanks,
Bradley

[andy]

Hi

When you log in which locale/country/language do you select on the login screen? How many options have you got exposed here?

Does the locale you pick match the default locale of the machine running alfresco? You would have picked this when setting up the operating system on the server.

There was a bug in this area for 2.0 community where user ids were tokenisaed according to locale and not as identifiers. This has been fixed.

Are you using the default alfresco authentication set up?

Andy

[bsawler]

Hi Andy,

I installed Alfresco right out-of-the-box and did not make any changes to the locale.  I only enter the username and password and leave the language as default (english).  During the installation there is no locale to choose from, so I am assuming this is also default to something.

I am not sure what locate Windows2003 is set at, but I would assume Vietnam as that is where we are, but the language is English.

This may of been the issue, but I have since resolve this by removing Alfresco and re-creating the database with all the documents I pulled out of the Alfresco directories. 

Working my much better now on MySQL.

Regards,
Bradley