Bug 545258

Summary:	hal-0.5.14-1 and failures with brightness controls
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Rex Dieter <rdieter>
Component:	kdebase-workspace	Assignee:	Than Ngo <than>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	12	CC:	fedora, fedora, jreznik, kevin, lorenzo, ltinkl, rdieter, richard, smparrish, sven, than
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Description Rex Dieter 2009-12-08 00:10:03 UTC

hal-0.5.14-1.fc12 seems to induce a couple of bad behaviors in kde that isn't present with hal-0.5.13-9.fc12

1.  First attempt to login from kdm seems to fail/crash X, 2nd attempt works

2.  kde's brightness controls no longer seem to work, and are now stuck at 0 (dimmest setting).

I'm currently focussed on looking at 2.

Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2009-12-08 00:45:37 UTC

$ qdbus --system org.freedesktop.Hal /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer_backlight org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.LaptopPanel.GetBrightness
7

This returns valid values, but

$ solid-powermanagement brightness get

Brightness is 0%

isn't very good.


During this, 

$ solid-powermanagement brightness set

continues to work.

Comment 2 Rex Dieter 2009-12-08 01:43:20 UTC

wrt, crash on first login, /var/log/messages contain,

Dec  7 19:33:30 localhost kdm: :0[1453]: Cannot open ConsoleKit session: Unable to open session: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 0
Dec  7 19:33:30 localhost kdm: :0[1453]: Client start failed
Dec  7 19:33:30 localhost kdm: :0[1453]: Cannot close ConsoleKit session: Unable to close session: no session open

weird, re-assigning to kdebase-workspace for further investigation.

Comment 3 Kevin Kofler 2009-12-08 04:02:53 UTC

This doesn't sound like KDM's fault, it's just echoing the error message given by libck-connector. Looks like talking to ConsoleKit is failing for some reason.

As for the KDE crash possibly related to no valid brightness, are you using Qt 4.6? See https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217805

Comment 4 Rex Dieter 2009-12-08 04:08:01 UTC

Stock stuff here,
qt-4.5.3-9.fc12.x86_64
kdebase-workspace-4.3.3-7.fc12.x86_64

SMParrish was able to reproduce these symptoms @ fudcon too.

Comment 5 Richard Hughes 2009-12-08 08:00:39 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> $ qdbus --system org.freedesktop.Hal
> /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer_backlight
> org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.LaptopPanel.GetBrightness
> 7
> 
> This returns valid values, but
> 
> $ solid-powermanagement brightness get
> 
> Brightness is 0%
> 
> isn't very good.

Surely this is a solid failure then?

Comment 6 Kevin Kofler 2009-12-08 13:10:27 UTC

Did something in HAL change incompatibly from 0.5.13 to 0.5.14?

Comment 7 Rex Dieter 2009-12-09 01:18:59 UTC

Opened separate bug #545258 to track the libck-connector/kdm failure.

Adjusting subject here for brightness control issue(s).

Comment 8 Rex Dieter 2009-12-14 14:36:08 UTC

Potential reviewboard fix submitted,
http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/2368/

Comment 9 Rex Dieter 2009-12-14 15:29:40 UTC

I think I can confirm this fixes the issue here, working on a patch

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2009-12-18 04:22:52 UTC

kde-l10n-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdeutils-4.3.4-2.fc12, kdetoys-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdesdk-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdepim-runtime-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdepim-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdeplasma-addons-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdenetwork-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdemultimedia-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdegraphics-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdegames-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdeedu-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdebindings-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdeartwork-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdeadmin-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdeaccessibility-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdebase-runtime-4.3.4-2.fc12, kdebase-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdepimlibs-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdelibs-experimental-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdelibs-4.3.4-1.fc12, phonon-4.3.80-2.fc12, kde-settings-4.3-15.1, kdebase-workspace-4.3.4-3.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 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 kde-l10n kdeutils kdetoys kdesdk kdepim-runtime kdepim kdeplasma-addons kdenetwork kdemultimedia kdegraphics kdegames kdeedu kdebindings kdeartwork kdeadmin kdeaccessibility kdebase-runtime kdebase kdepimlibs kdelibs-experimental kdelibs phonon kde-settings kdebase-workspace'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F12/FEDORA-2009-13285

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2009-12-22 04:52:14 UTC

kde-l10n-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdeutils-4.3.4-2.fc12, kdetoys-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdesdk-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdepim-runtime-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdepim-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdeplasma-addons-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdenetwork-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdemultimedia-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdegraphics-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdegames-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdeedu-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdebindings-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdeartwork-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdeadmin-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdeaccessibility-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdebase-runtime-4.3.4-2.fc12, kdebase-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdepimlibs-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdelibs-experimental-4.3.4-1.fc12, phonon-4.3.80-2.fc12, kde-settings-4.3-15.1, oxygen-icon-theme-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdelibs-4.3.4-3.fc12, kdebase-workspace-4.3.4-3.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 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 kde-l10n kdeutils kdetoys kdesdk kdepim-runtime kdepim kdeplasma-addons kdenetwork kdemultimedia kdegraphics kdegames kdeedu kdebindings kdeartwork kdeadmin kdeaccessibility kdebase-runtime kdebase kdepimlibs kdelibs-experimental phonon kde-settings oxygen-icon-theme kdelibs kdebase-workspace'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F12/FEDORA-2009-13285

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2009-12-28 20:08:41 UTC

kde-l10n-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdeutils-4.3.4-2.fc12, kdetoys-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdesdk-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdepim-runtime-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdepim-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdeplasma-addons-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdenetwork-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdemultimedia-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdegraphics-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdegames-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdeedu-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdebindings-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdeartwork-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdeadmin-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdeaccessibility-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdebase-runtime-4.3.4-2.fc12, kdebase-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdepimlibs-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdelibs-experimental-4.3.4-1.fc12, phonon-4.3.80-2.fc12, kde-settings-4.3-15.1, oxygen-icon-theme-4.3.4-1.fc12, kdelibs-4.3.4-3.fc12, kdebase-workspace-4.3.4-3.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.