Bug 107552

Summary:	hal 0.5.4/gnome-power-manager 0.2.3 power management permissions
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Chris <thirtyyearswar>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Project Gentopia <gentopia>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	xoen.gnu
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Chris 2005-09-28 19:30:12 UTC

gnome-power-manager responds to the acpi sleep button event as follows:

** (gnome-power-manager:13227): DEBUG: Error: A security policy in place
prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient, see message
bus configuration file (rejected message had interface
"org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement" member "Hibernate" error name
"(unset)" destination "org.freedesktop.Hal")

** (gnome-power-manager:13227): WARNING **:
org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement.Hibernate failed (HAL error)

** (gnome-power-manager:13227): WARNING **:
org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement.Hibernate call failed (134568889)

The same issue seems to be impacting SetPowerSave as well:

** (gnome-power-manager:13227): DEBUG: Error: A security policy in place
prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient, see message
bus configuration file (rejected message had interface
"org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement" member "SetPowerSave" error
name "(unset)" destination "org.freedesktop.Hal")

This has also been reported by another gentoo user in the gnome-power-manager
mailing list:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=8129732&forum_id=44600


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1 Chris 2005-09-29 04:05:25 UTC

Note that I patched the /usr/sbin/hal-system-power-hibernate and -suspend
scripts so that they would run /usr/sbin/hibernate in response to the
button/SLPB event. (This is per discussion on the hal mailing list.)

Note also that, based on the g-p-m thread discussed above, I tried using a
script that could be run as a mortal user (hibernate needs to be run as root)
with the same results.

Comment 2 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-12-29 22:35:18 UTC

The real problem may be G-P-M doing something it's not allowed to do. Who's to say that HAL isn't correct in enforcing the permissions. Has G-P-M asked for the permissions?

Since we don't have gnome-power-manager in the tree and since no other app has a problem with HAL currently, I'm going to blame G-P-M.

You can however bug steev[at]gentoo.org since he's working on G-P-M for Gentoo.