Hello, I found a bug in kde-guidance-powermanager, which seems to be a permission problem in the HAL/DBUS area and can be worked around with a code change in the powermanager. With the workaround the annoying behavior of the bug goes away, but the function is degraded as well.
The bug is documented here (well seem that the mails did not yet make it into the BTS web database !?): http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=397508 Luka from Kubuntu helped me to track down the issue and provided the patch. He would like to find a solution, which works for Debian as well, but needs a contact, who can help with debian desktop permissions. I get on the console this message: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/python-support/kde-guidance/guidance-power-manager.py", line 411, in poll self.powerHasBeenUnplugged() File "/usr/share/python-support/kde-guidance/guidance-power-manager.py", line 567, in powerHasBeenUnplugged dbus_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.LaptopPanel") File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/dbus/proxies.py", line 102, in __call__ reply_message = self._connection.send_with_reply_and_block(message, timeout) File "dbus_bindings.pyx", line 455, in dbus_bindings.Connection.send_with_reply_and_block dbus_bindings.DBusException: A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient, see message bus configuration file (rejected message had interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.LaptopPanel" member "SetBrightness" error name "(unset)" destination "org.freedesktop.Hal") Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/python-support/kde-guidance/guidance-power-manager.py", line 411, in poll self.powerHasBeenUnplugged() File "/usr/share/python-support/kde-guidance/guidance-power-manager.py", line 567, in powerHasBeenUnplugged dbus_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.LaptopPanel") File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/dbus/proxies.py", line 102, in __call__ reply_message = self._connection.send_with_reply_and_block(message, timeout) File "dbus_bindings.pyx", line 455, in dbus_bindings.Connection.send_with_reply_and_block dbus_bindings.DBusException: A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient, see message bus configuration file (rejected message had interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.LaptopPanel" member "SetBrightness" error name "(unset)" destination "org.freedesktop.Hal") This shows up, although the user is in the powerdev group This is in /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf <!-- Debian groups policies --> <policy group="powerdev"> <allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement"/> <allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.LaptopPanel"/> </policy> Ubuntu has an "on_console" concept, which makes ubuntu different here. I would appreciate any help to make -> the patch going into the Debian package -> get rid of the root cause in Debian, which would give the Debian powermanager all functions it has in Ubuntu. Best contact Luca or the Debian package maintainers (which showed not very responsive so far) directly. Thanks, Rainer PS: On copy, there is Lula and the Debian maintainers of - kde-guidance-powermanager - hal - dbus -- Rainer Dorsch Alzentalstr. 28 D-71083 Herrenberg 07032-919495 jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Fingerprint: 5966 C54C 2B3C 42CC 1F4F 8F59 E3A8 C538 7519 141E Full GPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
