[Bug 509406] Re: shares-admin crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_is_value_type()

2011-02-21 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
You shouldn't be running shares-admin as root, this creates many issues. Just run 'shares-admin', and authenticate via PolicyKit. (And anyway your version is really too old, sorry.) ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Won't Fix -- You received this bug

[Bug 721670] Re: Addresses given in /usr/share/doc/gnome-system-tools/README are outdated

2011-02-19 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
To be fair, only one address is outdated. The project homepage, mailing list, FTP server, GNOME module name and IRC channel are all valid. And it's not like GNOME is a completely unknown project! I'll remove the whitepaper address, and maybe I'll fix the website to stop telling about CVS/SVN since

[Bug 630430] Re: Disabled accounts are still allowed password-less login via GDM

2011-02-18 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Let's deal with the gnome-screensaver task on the other bug, then, and close this one. The gdm/gnome-system-tools part is fixed with the g-s-t 2.32 in Maverick. ** Changed in: gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged = Invalid ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Status:

[Bug 574187] Re: Screensaver asks password when the user is in the password-less login group

2011-02-18 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Confirming the suggested solution. As I said on bug 630430, this will simply require adding a: auth sufficient pam_succeed_if.so user ingroup nopasswdlogin line in /etc/pam.d/gnome-screensaver, right before: @include common-auth ** Changed in: gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided

[Bug 720414] Re: deleted user still listed in login screen

2011-02-17 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Thanks for your report. Could you post the errors you get when logging in? Please also follow instructions from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingGnomeSystemTools and attach information here. ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Status: New = Incomplete -- You received this bug

[Bug 574078] Re: Fails to launch modules: Can't locate Net/DBus.pm in @INC

2011-02-12 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
OK, I'm closing because there's not much we can do without somebody experiencing the bug. The Gentoo fix doesn't sound very logical to me, but... ** Changed in: system-tools-backends (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 574078] Re: Fails to launch modules: Can't locate Net/DBus.pm in @INC

2011-02-09 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
According to people having the same bug in Gentoo, running sudo chmod o+x /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper solves this bug. Could you report if it's also a solution for you? Thanks! ** Changed in: system-tools-backends (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged = Incomplete -- You received this bug

[Bug 542183] Re: [users-admin] Changing UID doesn't work

2011-01-26 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
That's not a regression. In the worst case, nothing changes. But I suspect for some reason Charlie isn't using the version with the fix, since he also said bug 533870 wasn't fixed. What's your version number of system-tools-backends? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 708143] Re: wnck-applet shows rotated monitor layout

2011-01-26 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
** Package changed: gnome-panel (Ubuntu) = gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-settings-daemon in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/708143 Title: wnck-applet shows rotated

[Bug 701312] Re: The users-admin command does not work

2011-01-21 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
OK, thanks! Could you get more debugging information by following instructions for users-admin at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingGnomeSystemTools No issue with the delays, I'm not in a hurry... ;-) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which

[Bug 666555] Re: users and groups home directory change does not take

2011-01-17 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
So your system isn't broken, it's just that adduser doesn't interact well with automount. I'm not sure why this doesn't work (i.e. why /home isn't mounted when adduser tries to access it), nor if it should work. But that's not a bug in users-admin. You could report a bug against adduser in Debian

[Bug 666555] Re: users and groups home directory change does not take

2011-01-16 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Thanks! The interesting part is: file_run_full_failed::Command [/usr/sbin/adduser --gecos --disabled-password bugta] failed. Since the user wasn't created, everything else fails. What do you get when you run: sudo /usr/sbin/adduser --gecos --disabled-password bugta in a terminal? You'll get

[Bug 697974] Re: time-admin crashed with SIGSEGV in e_map_point_get_location()

2011-01-15 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
The problem isn't that I fear people won't do the work, as I know packaging will happen anyway. It's just that the way Ubuntu devs consider patching is plain wrong: there's generally no hurry pushing a fix to the development release, so downstream patching only generates useless work. I wish

[Bug 697974] Re: time-admin crashed with SIGSEGV in e_map_point_get_location()

2011-01-14 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Thanks for the debugging and for the patch, but I don't think it fixes the root cause. tzmap-point_hover should already contain the point that was retrieved using e_map_get_closest_point() when the pointer moved. So if tzmap-point_hover isn't valid, we have to find out why. The questions I asked

[Bug 699664] Re: nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__BOXED()

2011-01-11 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
** Visibility changed to: Public -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/699664 Title: nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__BOXED() -- desktop-bugs

[Bug 701375] Re: nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__BOXED() ejecting SD card

2011-01-11 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 683972 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/683972 ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 699664 nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__BOXED() ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 683972 nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV

[Bug 700564] Re: copying files when nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__BOXED()

2011-01-11 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 683972 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/683972 ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 699664 nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__BOXED() ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 683972 nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV

[Bug 699664] Re: nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__BOXED()

2011-01-11 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 683972 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/683972 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 683972 nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in g_closure_invoke() ejecting drives * You can subscribe to bug 683972 by following this link:

[Bug 683972] Re: nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in g_closure_invoke() ejecting drives

2011-01-11 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Thanks Romano, it allowed us to discover those forgotten reports! I've made the other bug public. These traces are very confusing, since they are all very similar to the original bug 630884. I'm going to report this upstream, and see what they say... -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 701312] Re: The users-admin command does not work

2011-01-11 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Thanks for your report. I see you're using the system-tools-backends 2.9.4-0ubuntu1, while the most recent version is 2.9.4-0ubuntu1.1, which fixes many issues. Could you enable the lucid-proposed repository, run the updates manager, and retry? See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed

[Bug 683972] Re: nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in g_closure_invoke() ejecting drives

2011-01-11 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Upstream said we should also backport patch from http://git.gnome.org/browse/nautilus/commit/?h=gnome-2-32id=c3b54e662b52ca15d1dcbe68386b8fa82b12adc5 ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Triaged ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #627901

[Bug 683972] Re: nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in g_closure_invoke() ejecting drives

2011-01-11 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
If this is reported to work, it might be wise to directly upload nautilus 2.32.2.1 to maverick-updates, because it includes this fix among others. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in ubuntu.

[Bug 701312] Re: The users-admin command does not work

2011-01-11 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
The version I'm suggesting you to use is actually much more stable than the one you're currently using... ;-) You can install it without updating any other packages by getting it from https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/system-tools-backends_2.9.4-0ubuntu1.1_i386.deb (for

[Bug 683972] Re: nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in g_closure_invoke() ejecting drives

2011-01-10 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Romano: see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Apport#How%20to%20enable%20apport about how to get a trace. The log is interesting, it may indicate that Nautilus tries to get some information from ConsoleKit, which fails. Then, maybe it follows a code path that hasn't been really tested because it doesn't

[Bug 697974] Re: time-admin crashed with SIGSEGV in e_map_point_get_location()

2011-01-10 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
And only when clicking on that point? Here I'm not able to reproduce the crash... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-system-tools in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/697974 Title: time-admin crashed with

[Bug 697974] Re: time-admin crashed with SIGSEGV in e_map_point_get_location()

2011-01-10 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
This bug is weird because we seem to be passing NULL as location point. This can only happen if no point was highlighted when you clicked; the pointer must get out of the map for the point to be set to NULL. Do different effects happen if e.g. you hover a different point before clicking on

[Bug 700629] Re: package gnome-system-tools 2.30.0-0ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: esecuzione di stat (dereference) sul collegamento simbolico esistente /usr/share/omf/gnome-system-tools/time-adm

2011-01-09 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Thanks for the report, but I/O errors generally come from failing hard disk drives, and not from a bug in a package. Thus, I'm closing this report. I advise you to make a backup of your files in case you disk is dying... ;-) ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Status: New = Invalid

[Bug 699850] Re: users administration does not come up for root

2011-01-07 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 685215 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/685215 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 685215 users-admin hangs immediately when run as root * You can subscribe to bug 685215 by following this link:

[Bug 699850] Re: users administration does not come up for root

2011-01-07 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 685215 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/685215 The warning comes from a minor bug where we try to unreference the user face icon even if there is none. It has no real incidence and is fixed upstream. -- You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 647371] Re: time-admin crashed with SIGSEGV in e_map_point_get_location()

2011-01-07 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
ubby: so same questions as in my comment #5... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-system-tools in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/647371 Title: time-admin crashed with SIGSEGV in

Re: [Bug 696115] Re: Timezone should not require superuser on laptop

2011-01-05 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mercredi 05 janvier 2011 à 07:49 +, gpk a écrit : Essentially, the trade-off is a minor convenience 99.999% of the time, versus a modest (or major) disaster 0.001% of the time. That's also exactly how I'd describe the idea of allowing all users to set timezone without authentication on

[Bug 697450] Re: [time-admin] click to make changes text isn't clickable

2011-01-05 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
This button is going to be reworked soon anyway. This problem is known upstream, I think there's a bug open about that. ** Package changed: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) = policykit-1-gnome (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: policykit-1-gnome (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = Low ** Changed in:

Re: [Bug 696115] Re: Timezone should not require superuser on laptop

2011-01-05 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mercredi 05 janvier 2011 à 20:28 +, gpk a écrit : No thanks. People love to add features. You can't stop someone who has a pet idea that they haven't thought through very carefully.They just produce self-justifying reasons and don't listen. That's an idea that came from

Re: [Bug 696115] Re: Timezone should not require superuser on laptop

2011-01-04 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mardi 04 janvier 2011 à 15:51 +, gpk a écrit : Actually, on consideration, I don't think that automatic detection of the timezone is a viable solution.It suffers from all kinds of potential problems like What does it do if it's connected to a VPN?. If I connect via VPN to

Re: [Bug 666555] Re: users and groups home directory change does not take

2011-01-03 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le dimanche 02 janvier 2011 à 22:58 +, RnSC a écrit : Following up, new system. Gave up on getting 10.04 video to work on my system (another story), switched to 10.10. Created a user named bugta, user 1001, group 1001. Tried to use System / Administration / Users and Groups to change

[Bug 680694] Re: shares-admin command does not realize that samba is already installed

2011-01-02 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 574046 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/574046 Don't bother providing this information, this bug is already known and has a fix in the lucid-proposed repository, which should be soon uploaded to lucid-updates. ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of

[Bug 696115] Re: Timezone should not require superuser on laptop

2011-01-01 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Everybody shouldn't be allowed to set the system timezone by default, as it affects all users on the system. If you don't have administrator rights on your laptop, you can ask the administrator to grant you the rights for the org.gnome.clock.mechanism.settimezone PolicyKit action, but this

[Bug 696115] Re: Timezone should not require superuser on laptop

2011-01-01 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
We can't change PolicyKit permissions depending on whether the system is a laptop or not. So we'd have to make the change for all systems, which is not necessarily what people expect. And even laptops can be used e.g. in kiosks or schools, where you don't want people to play with system settings.

[Bug 53132] Re: [time-admin] We need a GUI to enable/disable utc

2010-12-31 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Users will surely know what UTC is, but they'll have to be pretty smart to guess without further information all the implications using UTC on the hardware clock has. As I said, the installer should just disable UTC in hardware clock if Windows is already installed. If we provide an option for

[Bug 458331] Re: time-admin doesn't have Brazil's official time zone

2010-12-31 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Why do you think it is not a tzdata bug? time-admin merely shows timezones as reported by /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab, which is shipped by tzdata, so the real bug must be there. ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Triaged ** Changed in: tzdata (Ubuntu)

[Bug 458331] Re: time-admin doesn't have Brazil's official time zone

2010-12-30 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Kamus: are you sure you checked in time-admin, and not in gnome-panel? I still don't see Brasilia in time-admin... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-system-tools in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458331

[Bug 543042] Re: pressing CANCEL in policykit super user mount dialog shows silly error message

2010-12-30 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Triaged -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/543042 Title: pressing CANCEL in policykit super user mount

[Bug 543042] Re: pressing CANCEL in policykit super user mount dialog shows silly error message

2010-12-30 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #638375 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=638375 ** Also affects: nautilus via https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=638375 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 672873] Re: Installed GSettings schemas not detected on PowerPC

2010-12-29 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
That's because unsound's package doesn't use a version name that is superior to Maverick's. It should be 2.26.0-0ubuntu1+bigendian, or something like that. As a general rule, using the very same version as an existing package is not a good idea. -- You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 672873] Re: Installed GSettings schemas not detected on PowerPC

2010-12-29 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Instead of fixing your test package, your time would be better spent in generating a debdiff from it, so that developers can just upload the fix to Maverick. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Recipes/Debdiff -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 694038] Re: Applying changes to user settings... forever

2010-12-28 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Thanks for the report. Can you tell me exactly what settings you changed? I suspect you changed the home directory and something went wrong in that process. Are you able to reproduce the problem? Else, there's no much I can do, sadly... ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Importance:

[Bug 672873] Re: Installed GSettings schemas not detected on PowerPC

2010-12-27 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
SRU request: makes several apps unusable for PPC users, among which Evince, Empathy and users-admin. Patches are not intrusive, are available from upstream GLib 2.26.1, and can also be applied to Maverick's 2.26.0. Users have tested these patches and they work. -- You received this bug

[Bug 692418] Re: [time-admin]Cannot change timezone: PolicyKit Error

2010-12-20 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 433851 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/433851 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 433851 Authentication dialog doesn't get focus * You can subscribe to bug 433851 by following this link:

[Bug 692418] Re: [time-admin]Cannot change timezone: PolicyKit Error

2010-12-20 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 685655 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/685655 ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 433851 Authentication dialog doesn't get focus ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 685655 PolicyKit authentication error: Only trusted callers

[Bug 659758] Re: adding user changed home directory location not saved

2010-12-18 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
This was tricky, but I've committed a fix upstream in liboobs and gnome- system-tools. It will be available with 2.91.1 soon, for Natty. ** Also affects: gst Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: gst Status: New = Fix Released -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 691612] Re: Pressing unlock button in time-admin has no effect

2010-12-17 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 685655 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/685655 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 685655 PolicyKit authentication error: Only trusted callers (e.g. uid 0) can use CheckAuthorization() and pass details * You can subscribe to bug 685655 by

[Bug 666555] Re: users and groups home directory change does not take

2010-12-16 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
usermod always fails when trying to change the home for an active user. This is very reasonable since many files are likely to be open, so moving/removing them will fail. I've changed users-admin upstream to disable the home dir field and show and explanation notice in that case. This will be

[Bug 574046] Re: shares-admin doesn't see NFS and SMB installed (no support for Upstart jobs)

2010-12-16 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
KeithG: What version exactly? Both are 2.32.0, what we need is the -ubuntu part. It works here on Maverick. (Note you need to click the unlock button after installing packages, which can be confusing - even for me...) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 573387] Re: gnome-keyring-daemon fails to start

2010-12-10 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
xlash911: are you seeing the same messages as the ones from the description of this bug in /var/log/auth.log? Andreas: does your problem still happen in 10.10? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-keyring in ubuntu.

[Bug 688651] Re: Can't unlock time-admin in Natty Lubuntu

2010-12-10 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 685655 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/685655 Thanks for the report. Why do you see in the title it occurs in Natty if distro information says you're using Maverick (10.10)? This is important to debug the problem. Anyway, that's a duplicate of bug

[Bug 686846] Re: users-admin buttons do nothing via remote desktop

2010-12-09 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 221363 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/221363 If the patch doesn't apply, that just means it's not meant for Maverick, it can't be linked with the kind of bug you have. Trust me, it's the right fix. If you want to try it by yourself, you can edit

[Bug 686846] Re: users-admin buttons do nothing via remote desktop

2010-12-09 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 221363 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/221363 Hm, I hadn't read your two latter replies... Yes, the real question (see duplicate report) is why remote sessions are considered as inactive. I don't really understand whether they should be reported as

[Bug 685596] Re: users-admin doesn't report error when PolicyKit authentication fails

2010-12-09 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Don't worry for the delays... some bugs are opened for years, often with a higher priority! As regards the active/inactive issue, that would likely be a bug in ConsoleKit. users-admin is not going away today nor in the next year, else I wouldn't even reply to bug reports. It's just that I don't

[Bug 686277] Re: users-admin UID bug

2010-12-09 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 542183 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/542183 Yeah, that's a known bug that's going to be fixed soon in Lucid. ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 542183 [users-admin] Changing UID doesn't work * You can subscribe to bug 542183 by

[Bug 685655] Re: PolicyKit authentication error: Only trusted callers (e.g. uid 0) can use CheckAuthorization() and pass details

2010-12-08 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Thanks. So everything works but the lock buttton, which means it's a bug in polkit-gnome. The good news is, I'm going to stop using it in the gnome-system-tools before the next release since it's not compatible with GTK+ 3. We still need to find out what's going wrong, though - I'll try to get

[Bug 598912] Re: users-admin: Manage Groups button is system-wide but looks like it applies to the selected user in the interface

2010-12-08 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
The button was moved in 2.32, which is present in Maverick. ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged = Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-system-tools in ubuntu.

[Bug 686846] Re: users-admin buttons do nothing via remote desktop

2010-12-08 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 221363 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/221363 This is a mix of bug 685596, which is that users-admin doesn't report authentication errors, and bug 187585, which is about PolicyKit/ConsoleKit not detecting that remove sessions are active users. To

[Bug 686846] Re: users-admin buttons do nothing via remote desktop

2010-12-08 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 221363 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/221363 Ah, and what I said is actually exactly bug 221363, which I'm going to fix now, so marking as duplicate. ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 221363 Policy Kit Unlock Buttons Greyed Out when

[Bug 221363] Re: Policy Kit Unlock Buttons Greyed Out when using NX / VNC / LTSP

2010-12-08 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
** Also affects: system-tools-backends Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to system-tools-backends in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/221363 Title: Policy Kit Unlock

[Bug 221363] Re: Policy Kit Unlock Buttons Greyed Out when using NX / VNC / LTSP

2010-12-08 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
I've eventually pushed the allow_any fix to the system-tools-backends upstream, it should be available in 2.10.2 for Natty. Somebody should really go over all actions from /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/ and file a new bug task for all actions that don't consider allow_any as a valid case without a

[Bug 685655] Re: date and time preferences cannot be edited when launched from the indicator

2010-12-07 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Thanks for the report. Please run sudo killall polkitd; sudo /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkitd And reproduce the problem. Then, copy/paste the output of the above command here. Also, what's the output of apt-cache policy libpolkit-gobject-1-0 libpolkit-gtk-1-0 ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools

[Bug 685655] Re: Polickit authentication error: Only trusted callers (e.g. uid 0) can use CheckAuthorization() and pass details

2010-12-07 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Oh, and are you able for example to install software upgrades using updates-manager? Are you able to authenticate from from System-Administration-Network connections? ** Summary changed: - Polickit authentication error: Only trusted callers (e.g. uid 0) can use CheckAuthorization() and pass

[Bug 685655] Re: PolicyKit authentication error: Only trusted callers (e.g. uid 0) can use CheckAuthorization() and pass details

2010-12-07 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
You mean there's nothing else printed than: ** (polkitd:1752): DEBUG: system-bus-name::1.56 is inquiring whether unix-process:2283:1752924 is authorized for org.freedesktop.systemtoolsbackends.set ** (polkitd:1752): DEBUG: user of caller is unix-user:connor ** (polkitd:1752): DEBUG: user of

[Bug 685596] Re: users-admin edit dialogs don't show up

2010-12-06 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Ah, sorry, I didn't know you weren't using GNOME. The gnome-settings- daemon part is not essential at all: the idea was only to use the PID of a process that is known to be running - you can use any program name here. The polkitd log contains the explanation to your problem: ** (polkitd:1592):

[Bug 616682] Re: Backport system-tools-backends 2.10.0 to Lucid

2010-12-06 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Thanks for the diff! Looks good to me, except that the change log line: - Identify users and groups by login instead of UID (LP: #533870, LP: #542183) is wrong: Bug 533870 is a crash on amd64 too, not a login vs. UID issue. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 616682] Re: Backport system-tools-backends 2.10.0 to Lucid

2010-12-06 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
No, I don't think it is. ;-) As long as the right number is listed... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to system-tools-backends in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/616682 Title: Backport system-tools-backends

[Bug 685596] Re: users-admin ignores attempts to modify settings

2010-12-05 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
The gksu issue is not related at all, since users-admin doesn't use it (else, that would mean it's running as root). I suspect no user is shown in the list, or the current user isn't. Is it the case? Can you test that by creating a test user using 'adduser' in a console and check if it's enough?

[Bug 685215] Re: users-admin hangs immediately when run as root

2010-12-05 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Of course, it would be slightly better to fix users-admin not working as root, rather than showing an error message, just in case some very special distributions or users need this. But I'd accept a patch showing a dialog too if it's well written... I don't think translators will mind - if you

[Bug 685596] Re: users-admin edit dialogs don't show up

2010-12-05 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
So it sounds like a PolicyKit issue. Please run sudo killall polkitd; sudo /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkitd start users-admin, and click on a button that doesn't work. Then please attach the output here. What happens if you run export PID=`pidof gnome-settings-daemon` pkcheck --action-id

[Bug 684587] Re: users-admin won't allow creation of new user

2010-12-04 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
There's an error in the log file you provided, though. Could you check when it exactly happens (e.g. when pressing OK for the password dialog...)? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-system-tools in ubuntu.

[Bug 685215] Re: users-admin hangs immediately when run as root

2010-12-04 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
But this is not a bug. You shouldn't run users-admin as root, as you don't need to, and it potentially creates security issues. ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Status: New = Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which

[Bug 685215] Re: users-admin hangs immediately when run as root

2010-12-04 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
You could, but I can sear you nobody will ever work on this because 1) nobody usually works on users-admin except myself, and 2) users-admin is going to be replaced, so we're not really fixing this kind of detail. Feel free to provide a patch though, but filing a bug would really waste your

[Bug 684587] Re: users-admin won't allow creation of new user

2010-12-04 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
You can just open the file after each time you validate a dialog by clicking a button, and for example note somewhere what line was the last at that point, and then mark this in the file by introducing comments. You may also run the commands in a terminal without the stb- users.log part, so that

[Bug 684587] Re: users-admin won't allow creation of new user

2010-12-03 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Thanks for the report. Could you follow the procedure For users [users- admin] at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingGnomeSystemTools and attach the resulting files here? Also, I'd need you to run 'sudo killall polkitd; sudo /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkitd' before you carry out the other actions, and

[Bug 630884] Re: nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in g_closure_invoke()

2010-12-02 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
OK, let's say bug 683972 is the place where we track the crash that still occurs with nautilus 1:2.32.0-0ubuntu1.1. What feels weird is that the trace is very very similar, but let's see... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 683972] Re: nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in g_closure_invoke() ejecting drives

2010-12-02 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
What you should have said in the description is that this crash is very close to bug 630884, which is reported to be fixed with nautilus 1:2.32.0-0ubuntu1.1. ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 630884 nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in g_closure_invoke() * You can subscribe to bug

[Bug 616682] Re: Backport system-tools-backends 2.10.0 to Lucid

2010-12-01 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Thanks Chris! But we really don't need to backport 2.10.1, 2.10.0 will be enough. 2.10.1 only brings in a few improvements that are used by the gnome-system-tools 2.32, which are not in Lucid. This removes most of the changes (in terms of lines of code), which makes the SRU even safer. --

[Bug 616682] Re: Backport system-tools-backends 2.10.0 to Lucid

2010-11-29 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Seriously, I've moved on to other things since Lucid has been released - glad to know SRUs are considered even when they are that old, though! ;-) The only translation change between Lucid and Maverick package is in one file and for two strings, so definitely not something to care about. If

[Bug 542183] Re: [users-admin] Changing UID doesn't work

2010-11-26 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Richard: It's fixed in Maverick, but still present in Lucid. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs, and especially https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status. -- [users-admin] Changing UID doesn't work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/542183 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 681206] Re: users-admin fails to change users' real name

2010-11-25 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 533870 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/533870 Yeah, that's known but we need to backport fixes to Lucid. ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 533870 Crash in SelfConfig on amd64 * You can subscribe to bug 533870 by following this link:

[Bug 677929] Re: users-admin: create new user with dot/period fails

2010-11-21 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Thanks for the report. This is indeed a synchronisation issue between users-admin and adduser, the tool which is responsible for actually creating users. I've filed a bug in Debian so they make adduser allow dots in usernames. ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided =

[Bug 674868] Re: [time-admin] ntp server selection should not suggest stratum 1 servers

2010-11-21 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
I've committed both changes (stratum 1 and unreachable servers) upstream. Thanks for the help! Of course, the proper fix would be creating a pool, but better fix this in the short term. Commits are 0fef206 and 8e01e05. ** Also affects: gst Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed

[Bug 677929] Re: users-admin: create new user with dot/period fails

2010-11-21 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
What's the exact behavior of the installer? It doesn't use the same code at all, so that's purely a coincidence it it suffers from the same problem. Don't worry about the importance, though: I'm currently discussing with an adduser developer, and the fact that I set it to Low doesn't mean it

[Bug 678230] Re: users-admin has problem when username contains a dot

2010-11-21 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 677929 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/677929 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 677929 users-admin: create new user with dot/period fails * You can subscribe to bug 677929 by following this link:

[Bug 677929] Re: users-admin: create new user with dot/period fails

2010-11-21 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Of course, we can pass --force-badname, but if we consider dots as acceptable, adduser should accept them by default. About chown, there's absolutely no need to change the tool, as long as people that add dots to their usernames and use chown from the commandline know what they are doing. Anyway,

[Bug 677486] Re: shares-admin installs packages without authentication

2010-11-19 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
I can't believe it. Can you remove these packages and reproduce the problem? I've just done it here, and it's prompting an authentication dialog. Is that a new install of Maverick, or an upgraded system? Are you sure you never played with system settings regarding authentication? Is 'sudo' asking

[Bug 672285] Re: Users and Groups/Add uses plain text spoken password with screen-reader

2010-11-19 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
users-admin knows nothing about this authentication dialog, it's run by PolicyKit-gnome. So the bug must affect all dialogs. You should report this to upstream if you really want it to be fixed. ** Package changed: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) = policykit-gnome (Ubuntu) ** Changed in:

[Bug 677486] Re: shares-admin installs packages without authentication

2010-11-19 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Yeah, the latter result is more what I expected. There's a bug and a fix for that, but nobody committed it for such a long time... Basically, you can't use shares-admin since 10.04... Be sure to remove /etc/init/nfs*, /etc/init.d/nfs*, /etc/init/samba and /etc/init.d/samba if these files exist.

[Bug 677486] Re: shares-admin installs packages without authentication

2010-11-19 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
I can hardly imagine how the fact that you're running in VMWare should change anything WRT authentication. More likely a config file was edited... Or you weren't asked for authentication because you had just provided your password for the same action a few seconds before. Anyway, let's close this

[Bug 675660] Re: Simplified About Me per specification

2010-11-15 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
gnome-about-me is in gnome-control-center, not gnome-system-tools. But note this tool is going to be deprecated in favor of accounts-dialog, so I don't think it makes sense to work on gnome-about-me currently. See

[Bug 672873] Re: Installed GSettings schemas not detected on PowerPC

2010-11-15 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
As I said above, fixes are commits c84441 and 9211d2b. So: http://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/commit/?id=c84441 http://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/commit/?id=9211d2b It would be nice if you're ready to apply these patches and check they fix the bug. But you may also test the latest GLib from Natty...

[Bug 675660] Re: Simplified About Me per specification

2010-11-15 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
No idea, you should ask Chris Coulson or Sebastien Bacher on #ubuntu- desktop about that. But of course replacing the users administration tool shouldn't create any regressions, so better be on the safe side and wait until all issues are solved. -- Simplified About Me per specification

[Bug 666555] Re: users and groups home directory change does not take

2010-11-14 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
No need to attach the empty file, obviously it's enough to say it doesn't contain anything... ;-) Nothing weird seems to be done by the backends, so the problem may come from a configuration issue on your system. Could you paste here the output of: sudo /usr/sbin/usermod -d /newdir/administ -g

[Bug 674374] Re: Schema org.gnome.Empathy not installed

2010-11-14 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 672873 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/672873 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 672873 Installed GSettings schemas not detected on PowerPC * You can subscribe to bug 672873 by following this link:

[Bug 672873] Re: Installed GSettings schemas not detected on PowerPC

2010-11-14 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Yes, that's most likely a duplicate. There's no real ETA, but the patch has been committed in the series that will go into Natty, and it will probably be released in a few weeks at most; then it will be up to Ubuntu to backport it, but that shouldn't be an issue. -- Installed GSettings schemas

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