Bug#553672: Bug#569035: deleting old config file solves problem

[Jérémy Bobbio]

tag 553672 +patch
thanks

On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 09:19:46AM -0500, Andrew Engelbrecht wrote:
> I tried removing /etc/dbus-1/system.d/system-tools-backends.conf, and
> found that it solves the problem. Doing this lets an admin launch the
> *-admin programs, and authenticate to make any changes, as normal.
> This way, you don't have to manually add yourself and every new admin
> account to the stb-admin group.

The source of the bug is that upstream had renamed
   /etc/dbus-1/system.d/system-tools-backends.conf
to /etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.SystemToolsBackends.conf after
version 2.6.0.

Unfortunately, a rename of a conffile must be handled in maintainer
scripts to be handled properly. Otherwise, the old conffile simply sit
there. In this case, overriding the proper D-Bus configuration and
making gnome-system-tools fail.

The attached patch fix this issue. The resulting package has been
installed:

 * as a single upgrade on a freshly installed Squeeze (where the bug
   does not exist),
 * as a single upgrade on a Squeeze upgraded from Lenny where it fixes
   the issue,
 * as part as an upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze, and the issue does not
   appear anymore.

This fix should really be included in the next Squeeze point-release.

Cheers,
-- 
Jérémy Bobbio                        .''`. 
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