Bug 93585 – fwbuilder fails to start shen using normal user account

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Salva Ferrer 2005-05-22 11:00:20 UTC]

Hello, I heve been using fwbuilder ebuild since v2.0.0. then I was used to use
it with a normal account, then switch to root in the firewall machine to install
rules.

Since v2.0.6 fwbuilder does not start if I use a user account.

I heve checked with root and it starts correctly. It never starts if I use a
user terminal and then su to root. Then always get the message:

Session management error: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the
authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication
failed.

And fwbuilder does not start.

If I log as root to the graphical environment (tested under gnome and XFCE4) it
starts ok.




Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.start gnome and/or XFCE4 with gnome services enabled
2.launch fwbuilder from the start menu or from a terminal
3.

Actual Results:  
fwbuilder does not start.

Expected Results:  
fwbuilder starts and show the last file used

I heve tested this behavior with gnome and XFCE4 user interfaces. Other program
s running were xorg-6.8.2-r1, gaim-1.3.0, mail-notification-1.1

[Comment 1 Salva Ferrer 2005-05-22 11:01:30 UTC]

Created attachment 59566 [details]
strace of a failed start

strace of fwbuilder it stays in last line forever without starting the UI

[Comment 2 Salva Ferrer 2005-05-22 11:02:56 UTC]

Created attachment 59567 [details]
Emerge info of my system

[Comment 3 Salva Ferrer 2005-05-22 11:17:40 UTC]

Followed more testing:
fwbuilder also fails when a normal user starts it from a 'failsafe terminal' of
GDM, no gnome, only X and a terminal.
It also fails when started by root from xfce4
It only works properly when started by root without any window or session manager.
I do not have KDE installed to test if it is related to qt-gtk interaction.

[Comment 4 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2005-05-22 11:54:21 UTC]

Sounds like a permission issue, related to Bug 92388 maybe. Have a look at /tmp
perms.

[Comment 5 Salva Ferrer 2005-05-22 12:37:40 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Sounds like a permission issue, related to Bug 92388 maybe. Have a look at /tmp
> perms.

I thought the same but I can't find what changed from v2.0.0 to 2.0.6 or 2.0.7.
If I downgrade to 2.0.0 everything works fine. My tmp permissions are:

drwxrwxrwt  120 root root 12288 may 22 21:28 /tmp
drwxrwxrwt  7 root root 216 may 22 00:07 /var/tmp

Seems normal also checked /usr/share/fwbuilder and seems normal r/w for root, r
for everybody else.

[Comment 6 Salva Ferrer 2005-05-28 11:25:34 UTC]

Found the following post in fwbuilder list:

http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1246194&forum_id=16373

It decribes the same problem in suse 9.1 with spanish locale. I changed the
locale to US english and everything worked again.

Seems like a fwbuilder bug with the es_ES@euro locale.

regards

[Comment 7 Benjamin Smee (strerror) (RETIRED) 2005-09-20 08:40:34 UTC]

Have you reported this upstream? I think this can probably be closed resolved
UPSTREAM unless we are doing something gentoo specific to cause the problem?

[Comment 8 Salva Ferrer 2005-09-28 11:02:31 UTC]

Hi,

the new version 2.0.9 seems to improve Spanish support. actually i do not thing
that the bug was gentoo specific as it also appears in SuSE. In my oppinion you
can close the bug.

regards

[Comment 9 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2006-05-31 13:16:03 UTC]

2.0.12 stable