Bug 476397

I can confirm this with both ggl-gtk and ggl-qt.

It because google gadgets needs to access some dbus services, like hal and network manager. But a security policy prevents it from accessing those resource. 0.10.3 assumes the access is always success, and will crash if it fails.

0.10.4 fixed this issue by checking the access result and do nothing if it fails.

However, many gadgets relies on this feature to get system information, such as battery meter, wireless monitor etc. The best way to fix this issue is to grant access right to google gadgets.

I just upgrade and confirm google gadget working again.

Thanks for the help.

Any possibility of getting an updated build in testing?  This also affects x86_64 F10.

(In reply to comment #2)
> It because google gadgets needs to access some dbus services, like hal and
> network manager. But a security policy prevents it from accessing those
> resource. 0.10.3 assumes the access is always success, and will crash if it
> fails.
Bizarre; I'm retesting 0.10.3-2 and while I'm getting errors, it does not crash, even after I removed ~/.google/gadgets and starting from scratch:

$ ggl-gtk
Not a regular file: /
Not a regular file: /
Not a regular file: /
No permission to read file.
No permission to access device status.
No permission to access device status.
No permissions to access D-Bus.
 
James, any specific details on which dbus services are required, so I can reassign this bug to the correct component?

(In reply to comment #4)
> Any possibility of getting an updated build in testing?  This also affects
> x86_64 F10.

An update is on the way.

I tested the 0.10.3-2 as well and it indeed does not crash anymore.

GGL requires HAL, network manager and dbus itself.

Upgrading to 0.10.4 is highly recommended, because it supports some new gadgets, like GMail, YouTube and Google Docs.

(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > It because google gadgets needs to access some dbus services, like hal and
> > network manager. But a security policy prevents it from accessing those
> > resource. 0.10.3 assumes the access is always success, and will crash if it
> > fails.
> Bizarre; I'm retesting 0.10.3-2 and while I'm getting errors, it does not
> crash, even after I removed ~/.google/gadgets and starting from scratch:
> 
> $ ggl-gtk
> Not a regular file: /
> Not a regular file: /
> Not a regular file: /
> No permission to read file.
> No permission to access device status.
> No permission to access device status.
> No permissions to access D-Bus.
> 
> James, any specific details on which dbus services are required, so I can
> reassign this bug to the correct component?
> 
> (In reply to comment #4)
> > Any possibility of getting an updated build in testing?  This also affects
> > x86_64 F10.
> 
> An update is on the way.

google-gadgets-0.10.4-2.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing-newkey update google-gadgets'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2009-0143

google-gadgets-0.10.4-2.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update google-gadgets'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2009-0172

google gadgets 0.10.5 is available. It's mainly a bugfix version. Feel free to upgrade your package.

google-gadgets-0.10.4-2.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

google-gadgets-0.10.4-2.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.