https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=237145 lgt1@star.le.ac.uk changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |lgt1@star.le.ac.uk Priority|P5 - None |P3 - Medium ------- Comment #2 from lgt1@star.le.ac.uk 2007-02-01 03:36 MST ------- I think this might be more serious than just a log warning. On my previously-working 10.2 system, I installed Ekiga, which in turn requires avahi to be installed. After this, I could no longer open windows for removable devices... "Cannot contact PolicyKit". Took some debugging, but I finally found that polkitd (Policy Kit Daemon), which is used to authorize access to various devices and services, was crashing at system startup just after complaining about the unknown group 'netdev'. I tracked this down to a policy rule in avahi-dbus.conf. After removing avahi (and Ekiga) and rebooting, polkitd started just fine and I could now open removable devices again. I may have a second 10.2 system with possibly the same problem but I haven't had a chance to check if polkitd is running yet - will report back when I have. I'm upping the priority of this bug as it has random effects on other parts of the system as well, which an average user would probably not be able to diagnose. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=237145 ------- Comment #6 from lgt1@star.le.ac.uk 2007-02-05 05:51 MST ------- I'm embarrassed to say that my previous comment (#2) was in error. The association of the avahi policy rule problem and polkitd crashing seems to have been a coincidence. After removing avahi and rebooting everything was fine. I have now double-checked by re-installing avahi and rebooting again. Although the 'netdev' error message still appears, the PolicyKit daemon now starts normally and I still have full access to removable devices etc. as before. I guess some other, transient problem caused my polkitd to fail. The second 10.2 system I referred to turned out to have a known problem with kpowersave (no response to power button press) and was not a policy kit or avahi error. Sorry to have unnecessarily raised the importance of this bug - I don't usually make this sort of mistake! I will monitor the behaviour of my system carefully just in case the problem recurs, but it seems likely that avahi is off the hook. Whether the missing netdev group causes operational problems for ekiga, I don't know, but it's not a system critical package. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=237145 crivera@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |FIXED ------- Comment #7 from crivera@novell.com 2007-02-26 11:08 MST ------- I submitted a patch to STABLE and 10.2 that replaces the non-existent "netdev" group with the "avahi" group. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=237145 ------- Comment #9 from andreas.hanke@gmx-topmail.de 2007-02-26 20:46 MST ------- I have to correct the first sentence of the previous comment: The problem is not that it patches the .in file, the problem is that it does *not* patch the in file. For the patch in order to work, it would have to patch the .in file. Anyway, a patch is not necessary here because this is supported by --with-avahi-priv-access-group. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=237145 crivera@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |RESOLVED Resolution| |FIXED ------- Comment #11 from crivera@novell.com 2007-02-27 10:56 MST ------- I fixed both issues and submitted to 10.2 and STABLE. For 10.2 this required patching configure.ac because a typo causing the -with-avahi-priv-access-group flag to be ignored. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.