Bug 279077 – xfce-base/thunar-1.0.1 crash with dbus error if you aren't in the plugdev group

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Erwan COLIN 2009-07-25 17:51:41 UTC]

Thunar crash when triyng to open it

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a terminal
2. Launch Thunar

Actual Results:  
process 2519: arguments to dbus_connection_send_with_reply_and_block() were incorrect, assertion "(error) == NULL || !dbus_error_is_set ((error))" failed in file dbus-connection.c line 3301.
This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.
  D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace
Aborted


Expected Results:  
Thunar launch

logan@Annw ~ $ emerge --info
Portage 2.2_rc33 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.3, glibc-2.10.1-r0, 2.6.28-gentoo-r2 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.28-gentoo-r2-x86_64-AMD_Phenom-tm-_9850_Quad-Core_Processor-with-gentoo-2.0.1
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 10:15:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     4.0_p28
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.8-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.4.6, 2.6.2-r1
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r8
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.4
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1
sys-apps/openrc:     0.4.3-r3
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.0
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2, 1.11
sys-devel/binutils:  2.19.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6a
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.30
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=k8 -msse3"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=k8 -msse3"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="candy distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://gentoo.imj.fr/pub/gentoo/ http://ftp.first-world.info/ ftp://ftp.first-world.info/ http://de-mirror.org/distro/gentoo/ ftp://de-mirror.org/distro/gentoo/ http://ftp.rhnet.is/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.rhnet.is/pub/gentoo/ http://ftp.roedu.net/pub/mirrors/gentoo.org/ ftp://ftp.roedu.net/pub/mirrors/gentoo.org/ ftp://ftp.romnet.org/gentoo/ "
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="fr en"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/java-overlay /usr/local/portage/layman/enlightenment"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acl acpi alsa amd64 apm berkdb branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo fam firefox fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv isdnlog jpeg ldap libnotify mad midi mikmod mmx mmxext mp3 mpeg mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3support quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl sse sse2 sse3 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd tiff truetype unicode usb vorbis xml xorg xulrunner xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="fr en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa vga nv nvidia"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) 2009-08-01 01:22:58 UTC]

sigh. thanks for the report. specific to dbus-1.2.12 I guess.

[Comment 2 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) 2009-09-02 03:42:57 UTC]

I'm seeing this same thing with dbus-1.3.0. xfdesktop is also failing to start with the same error.

[Comment 3 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) 2009-09-02 03:49:06 UTC]

It looks like this happens when your user is not a member of the 'plugdev' group. I added my user to this group, reloaded dbus, and logged out and back in. This fixed the problem for me.

[Comment 4 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) 2009-09-04 04:06:30 UTC]

Thanks! I am in the plugdev group, so I wouldn't catch this. Added this to the postinst message:

 * If you are seeing some odd dbus error, make sure your user is in the
 * plugdev group. See Gentoo bug #279077 for more info