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Launchpad account merging

Asked by László Vitos

When I added my GPG key to Launchpad, the system detected that one of the email addresses associated with that GPG key is already known to the system. I tried to merge the two but some system error is preventing it, possibly because the old account was auto-imported (laca-evol). I'd like the two accounts merged, or the old one removed (it has no history on Launchpad). Thanks.

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please see the work around in bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/1019975 that wgrant mentions
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Laura Czajkowski (czajkowski) said : 		#1

Hi the step by step process is documented here. https://answers.launchpad.net/launchpad/+faq/193

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László Vitos (vitos-laszlo) said : 		#2

Yes, I tried to follow those steps, dozens of times. It's always giving a system oops error.

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László Vitos (vitos-laszlo) said : 		#3

Example:

Oops!
Sorry, something just went wrong in Launchpad.

We’ve recorded what happened, and we’ll fix it as soon as possible. Apologies for the inconvenience.

(Error ID: OOPS-0378244a533d7637e2ea995d20eb71db)

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László Vitos (vitos-laszlo) said : 		#4

The above was actually providing more info...

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László Vitos (vitos-laszlo) said : 		#5

"the work around in bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/1019975 that wgrant mentions" is this one:

Admins can work around this by manually setting the account to Active on +reviewaccount, and doing the merge through https://launchpad.net/people/+adminpeoplemerge after verifying ownership.

Sounds fine to me. :)

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László Vitos (vitos-laszlo) said : 		#6

I've 'created' the account laca-evol and was able to merge the two accounts afterwards. The problem was almost surely the one same as in bug #1019975.