[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#609329: dbus: Strange umount messages for KDE user in log

[Simon McVittie]

On Sat, 08 Jan 2011 at 17:35:46 +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> Jun 21 17:07:29 remaxp dbus-daemon: Rejected send message, 3 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.8" (uid=1004 pid=4919 comm="kded [kdeinit] --new-startup                      ") interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" member="Unmount" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination="org.freedesktop.Hal" (uid=0 pid=3482 comm="/usr/sbin/hald "))

This is dbus-daemon saying that the rules in /etc/dbus-1/system.d don't allow
that user to call that method. I don't know why kdeinit is trying to unmount
a volume on logout, but dbus-daemon is just the messenger here - consider
reassigning to kdebase-bin?

In Debian's hal package, the users allowed to call methods on the Volume
interface are:

* those who are at the console, according to consolekit (if you have it)
* the plugdev Unix group
* root

See /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf for the gory details.

> The messages are always the same, except that the value after the
> sender varies between :1.6 ... :1.9 and the PID is different each time
> of course.

FYI, the unique name (thing that looks like :1.6) uniquely identifies a
connection to the bus, so it's expected that it varies between runs.

    Simon