Bug 588660 - cannot access /dev/rfkill so fails to start and work
Summary: cannot access /dev/rfkill so fails to start and work
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-bluetooth
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Bastien Nocera
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-05-04 08:38 UTC by Rudolf Kastl
Modified: 2010-10-12 22:20 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2010-06-03 16:38:33 UTC
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Description Rudolf Kastl 2010-05-04 08:38:59 UTC
Description of problem:
when trying out gnome really quick on my rawhide install i noticed:
bluetooth-applet 

** (bluetooth-applet:4496): WARNING **: Could not open RFKILL control device, please verify your installation

-d doesnet show any more info... chmod 666 on /dev/rfkill makes it work as expected as non root user.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-bluetooth-2.30.0-1.fc14.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2010-05-14 10:25:35 UTC
We install a rule (61-gnome-bluetooth-rfkill.rules) that should make the rfkill device available to the current user at the console.

Can you reproduce that problem? What's the output of "ck-list-sessions" and "getfacl /dev/rfkill" when the problem happens?

The content of the file:
# Get access to /dev/rfkill for users
# See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514798
KERNEL=="rfkill", ENV{ACL_MANAGE}="1"

Comment 2 sa 2010-05-19 00:03:52 UTC
Hi,

Apologies in advance for barging on a Fedora bug, but I noticed the same problem in Debian, and tracked it down to an udev upgrade (rawhide seems to use the same version, 154). When I reported it as a bug the udev maintainer responded:

"Other packages must not set ENV{ACL_MANAGE} (or the new tag which
replaced it).
gnome-bluetooth maintainer: for more information please discuss this
on the linux-hotplug@vger mailing list."

http://bugs.debian.org/582188

Comment 4 Bastien Nocera 2010-06-03 16:38:33 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> Hi,
> 
> Apologies in advance for barging on a Fedora bug, but I noticed the same
> problem in Debian, and tracked it down to an udev upgrade (rawhide seems to use
> the same version, 154). When I reported it as a bug the udev maintainer
> responded:
> 
> "Other packages must not set ENV{ACL_MANAGE} (or the new tag which
> replaced it).
> gnome-bluetooth maintainer: for more information please discuss this
> on the linux-hotplug@vger mailing list."
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/582188    

Thanks, though I'd like to ask why a bluetoothd problem got added to the equation, given that it runs as root and should be able to access /dev/rfkill anyways.

Fixed in gnome-bluetooth-2.30.0-2.fc14

(I double-checked that udev >= 154 wasn't in any other versions of the distribution either, to be sure).

Did you already fix the problem for other packages that use ACL_MANAGE such as libmtp, or pilot-link?

Comment 5 Alex Lancaster 2010-10-12 22:20:08 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)

> (I double-checked that udev >= 154 wasn't in any other versions of the
> distribution either, to be sure).
> 
> Did you already fix the problem for other packages that use ACL_MANAGE such as
> libmtp, or pilot-link?

This issue definitely bites pilot-link, filed bug #642435.


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