Description of problem: smolt doesn't work at all on a box I recently upgraded from FC5. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): smolt-0.9.8.4-4.fc7 smolt-gui-0.9.8.4-4.fc7 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. yum install smolt smolt-gui 2. smolt-gui 3. or smoltSendProfile -p Actual results: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/smoltSendProfile", line 106, in <module> profile = smolt.Hardware() File "/usr/share/smolt/client/smolt.py", line 270, in __init__ mgr = self.dbus_get_interface(systemBus, 'org.freedesktop.Hal', '/org/freedesktop/Hal/Manager', 'org.freedesktop.Hal.Manager') File "/usr/share/smolt/client/smolt.py", line 288, in dbus_get_interface proxy = bus.get_object(service, object) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 226, in get_object follow_name_owner_changes=follow_name_owner_changes) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 236, in __init__ self._named_service = conn.activate_name_owner(bus_name) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 165, in activate_name_owner self.start_service_by_name(bus_name) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 261, in start_service_by_name 'su', (bus_name, flags))) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 598, in call_blocking message, timeout) dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Hal was not provided by any .service files Exit 1 Expected results: smolt should do its thing Additional info: chkconfig'd smolt to on and service started it. Gui reports same error. I know nothing about python but checked that the modules hinted at in the errors were installed: dbus-python-0.81.1-1.fc7 pyxdg-0.15-5.fc7
I just upgraded F7 to F8 and smolt now works fine. This bug does not occur. Not sure if it will still bite people in F7. See if anyone else from F7 bites.
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Closed this bug as fixed.
Thank you for the bug report. Closing bug as per comment #3.