Bugzilla – Bug 280787
KDE errors on launching a session via freenx (0.6.99)
Last modified: 2007-09-20 16:20:41 UTC
Hi, I create a new user and launch the first session for this user using knx and freenx on the localhost. KDE does not launch cleanly. See the session file attached. There are a multitude of errors which I'm trying to track down and eliminate. Will post updates.
Created attachment 144043 [details] KDE start up session log
Several mailing list reports suggested KDE startup errors can be associated with updating KDE packages without shutting down X windows infrastructure. So I did the following: 1) Logout of kde 2) ctl+alt+f1 3) login as root 4) init 2 5) YaST2 6) Reload installed kde packages: This seems to have the effect of eliminating the following errors (updated session log attached): Invalid entry (missing '=') at /tmp/kde-nxclienttest/kconf_updatet0Sefc.tmp:1 kded: ERROR: mount failed for /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_label_SU1020_001: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied - 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.Volume" member "Mount" error name "(unset)" destination "org.freedesktop.Hal") kded: ERROR: mounting /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_label_SU1020_001 returned 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.Volume" member "Mount" error name "(unset)" destination "org.freedesktop.Hal") <snip> kio (KService*): WARNING: The desktop entry file .hidden/dirfilterplugin.desktop has Type=Service but is located under "apps" instead of "services" kio (KService*): WARNING: Invalid Service : .hidden/dirfilterplugin.desktop
Created attachment 144117 [details] session log after 'clean' Yast2 refresh of KDE packages This session log is associated with comment #2
See bug #280901 for a possible explanation of the 'Invalid Service' warning: kio (KService*): WARNING: The desktop entry file .hidden/dirfilterplugin.desktop has Type=Service but is located under "apps" instead of "services" kio (KService*): WARNING: Invalid Service : .hidden/dirfilterplugin.desktop
The xlib MNG, ALSA, errors _may_ be caused by or related to special characters being unexpectedly processed due to poorly formatted *.desktop files. This is described in bug #280954...? Or they may not?
they have nothing to do with the desktop files, really.
OK, I'm willing to believe this..... any idea what might be causing them? If not, any hint/suggestion about how to find out - the error messages seems quite cryptic to me. I'm a new Linux user so nothing is too simple :) Thanks for looking at this Dirk.
kded: ERROR: mounting /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_label_SU1020_001 returned 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.Volume" member " this sounds a bit like a hal/policykit issue. danny, could you please look at it?
If you use freenx you get a remote session and IIRC remote sessions are not allowed to mount or e.g. change the brightness. This is the same as for vnc and other remote session. We have this for security reasons.
the other debug issues are just minor and handled elsewhere already, so that leaves this bug as wontfix.