[sugar] Error while launching sugar on Edgy

[Dan Williams]

On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 09:52 +0000, bryan barnard wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Thank you for your answers.
> 
> Actually it seems I have a couple of problems with ubuntu. One is that
> the NetworkManager service is not present, which is solvable by
> installing the 'network-manager' package.

The above step isn't 100% necessary, as the applet can work without NM
running too.

> 
> The other is that the ubuntu dbus default configuration doesn't allow
> sugar to own the 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerInfo' service. After
> editing /etc/dbus-1/system.conf  by adding
> <allow own="org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerInfo"/>
> before
> </policy>
> and restarting the service with
> sudo /etc/init.d dbus restart
> the error message is no longer there.

Odd, since any executable can own the service AFAIK, as long as
the .conf file is correct.

Dan

> I'll update the wiki,
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Raphael
> 
> 2006/11/20, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com>:
> > On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 22:07 +0000, bryan barnard wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I just recently built sugar on Ubuntu Edgy (everything out of the box,
> > > then followed the procedure on the wiki
> > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_on_Ubuntu_Linux). Building works fine,
> > > but I run into trouble when I try ./sugar-jhbuild run, yielding the
> > > following error:
> > >
> > > Introspect error: The name org.laptop.DCONManager was not provided by
> > > any .service files
> > > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > >   File "/home/raphael/sugar/sugar-jhbuild/build/bin/sugar-nm-applet",
> > > line 37, in ?
> > >     app = nmclient.NMClientApp()
> > >   File "/home/raphael/sugar/sugar-jhbuild/build/share/sugar/services/nm/nmclient.py",
> > > line 459, in __init__
> > >     self.nminfo = nminfo.NMInfo(self)
> > >   File "/home/raphael/sugar/sugar-jhbuild/build/share/sugar/services/nm/nminfo.py",
> > > line 323, in __init__
> > >     self._dbus_helper = NMInfoDBusServiceHelper(self)
> > >   File "/home/raphael/sugar/sugar-jhbuild/build/share/sugar/services/nm/nminfo.py",
> > > line 285, in __init__
> > >     bus_name = dbus.service.BusName(NM_INFO_IFACE, bus=bus)
> > >   File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/dbus/service.py", line 24, in __new__
> > >     retval = dbus_bindings.bus_request_name(bus.get_connection(), name)
> > >   File "dbus_bindings.pyx", line 1780, in dbus_bindings.bus_request_name
> > > DBusException: Connection ":1.21" is not allowed to own the service
> > > "org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerInfo" due to security policies in the
> > > configuration file
> > >
> > > Has anybody got this error and found a solution ? It looks like
> > > something is trying to get a lock on a service in the namespace owned
> > > by the DBus protocol.
> >
> > This is the NetworkManager applet trying to register it's
> > NetworkManagerInfo service.  If you're not running NetworkManager,
> > you'll need to install the service file in /etc/dbus-1/system.d/ and
> > restart dbus.  You can get it here:
> >
> > http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/NetworkManager/gnome/applet/nm-applet.conf?rev=1.2
> >
> > We should probably handle this case gracefully in the applet.
> >
> > Dan
> >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Raphael
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> >
> >