System Preferences Accounts Empty


Today I went to System Preferences on Mac OS X and clicked on Accounts.

Nothing happened.

The title bar showed "Loading Accounts..." but never came back with anything.

Clicking on Accounts a second time and the window just went blank.

After rebooting and trying various things, I tried

nidump passwd /

in Terminal, which revealed the "problem". An 'oracle' user had been created (by the Oracle installer) without a realname.

So I did

sudo nicl . -create /users/oracle realname "Oracle"

and it fixed the problem.

Surely Apple could make System Preferences...Accounts a little more robust than this!

The original post was in the category: os_x but I'm still in the process of migrating categories over.