Subject: update-notifier: refuses to start if the admin group exists Package: update-notifier Version: 0.70.7.debian-4 Severity: normal
On my system update-notifier refuses to start with the message: * (update-notifier:12663): WARNING **: not starting because user is not in admin group In our environment we have an admin group that is used for administrative staff (not system administrators). It took me quite a while to figure out what was going on and how to fix it (not documented in /usr/share/doc or the manual page). It turns out you should use the --force option in this situation. Please don't use a normal group name that is not a default system group (perhaps the adm or operator group should be used instead if it contains any members) or provide some other means for administrators to hide update-notifier for users that shouldn't be made aware of updates. Also, please document this mechanism (and the --force option) in the manual page. (I found it when I was looking at the source) -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages update-notifier depends on: ii dbus [dbus-1-utils] 1.2.1-3 simple interprocess messaging syst ii gksu 2.0.0-5 graphical frontend to su ii hal 0.5.11-3 Hardware Abstraction Layer ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.20-2 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libatk1.0-0 1.22.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libbonobo2-0 2.22.0-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library ii libbonoboui2-0 2.22.0-1 The Bonobo UI library ii libc6 2.7-14 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.6.4-6 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.1-3 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.76-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libgconf2-4 2.22.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.2-1 library to load .glade files at ru ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.6-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnome2-0 2.20.1.1-1 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.20.1.1-1 A powerful object-oriented display ii libgnomeui-0 2.20.1.1-2 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf ii libgnomevfs2-0 1:2.22.0-5 GNOME Virtual File System (runtime ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.11-3 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libhal1 0.5.11-3 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libice6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libnotify1 [libnotify1-g 0.4.4-3 sends desktop notifications to a n ii liborbit2 1:2.14.13-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB ii libpango1.0-0 1.20.5-2 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpopt0 1.14-4 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii libsm6 2:1.0.3-2 X11 Session Management library ii libx11-6 2:1.1.5-2 X11 client-side library ii libxml2 2.6.32.dfsg-4 GNOME XML library ii notification-daemon 0.3.7-1+b1 a daemon that displays passive pop ii python 2.5.2-2 An interactive high-level object-o ii python-apt 0.7.7.1 Python interface to libapt-pkg ii update-manager 0.68.debian-6 GNOME application that manages sof ii update-notifier-common 0.70.7.debian-4 Files shared between update-notifi -- -- arthur de jong - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - west consulting b.v. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]