[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#589979: Bug#589979: dbus-daemon-launch-helper needs to be a+x to work

[Michael Biebl]

On 22.07.2010 18:55, Christian Weeks wrote:
> Package: dbus
> Version: 1.2.24-2
> Severity: important
> 
> Hi,
> I noted on 569058 that the problem seen in 569058 is not
> restricted to btrfs filesystems. Since you have closed that bug
> I feel that it is important to open a new bug, because this problem
> is still occuring for me, on every single upgrade of dbus on any
> of my computers.
> 
> Basically, if I don't chmod a+x /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper
> then very little of my desktop environments work: pulse is broken, 
> menus are broken, launching apps is broken. Basically, the entire gnome
> desktop is broken (not surprising given how much is dependent on dbus).
> 
> The only hypothesis I have (because I am NOT using btrfs, I am using ext3
> on LVM) is that it's actually to do with LDAP in some way, because all
> real local users are actually in an LDAP repository. I would guess that 
> somehow that's breaking the helper's user credentials (though the messagebus
> user _is_ a local user, not an LDAP user).
> 
> Given that I see this on at least 2 different desktops, I think it's pretty 
> reproducible, and spans many versions of dbus now.
> 

To follow up on this:

I don't think your particular issue is related to 569058.
569058 was about the setuid bit not being set correctly.
From your comment on 569058, where you showed an ls -la of the helper, the
setuid was set correctly.

To understand you correctly: are you saying, that the messagebus user is only
stored in LDAP? (if so, that's a very bad idea btw) and I guess the ldap service
runs after the dbus service (check /etc/rc2.d/)?

Under which user is your dbus system bus process running (ps aux | grep dbus)?

I'll keep this bug closed, as it smells very much like a local misconfiguration.

Michael




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