[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#589979: dbus-daemon-launch-helper needs to be a+x to work

[Christian Weeks]

Package: dbus
Version: 1.2.24-2
Severity: important

Hi,
I noted on 569058 that the problem seen in 569058 is not
restricted to btrfs filesystems. Since you have closed that bug
I feel that it is important to open a new bug, because this problem
is still occuring for me, on every single upgrade of dbus on any
of my computers.

Basically, if I don't chmod a+x /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper
then very little of my desktop environments work: pulse is broken, 
menus are broken, launching apps is broken. Basically, the entire gnome
desktop is broken (not surprising given how much is dependent on dbus).

The only hypothesis I have (because I am NOT using btrfs, I am using ext3
on LVM) is that it's actually to do with LDAP in some way, because all
real local users are actually in an LDAP repository. I would guess that 
somehow that's breaking the helper's user credentials (though the messagebus
user _is_ a local user, not an LDAP user).

Given that I see this on at least 2 different desktops, I think it's pretty 
reproducible, and spans many versions of dbus now.

(I think the last working version of dbus was about 1.2.16)

Thanks
Christian

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (700, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages dbus depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.112      add and remove users and groups
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-2   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.24-2   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexpat1                     2.0.1-7    XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libselinux1                   2.0.96-1   SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-23.1   Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

dbus recommends no packages.

Versions of packages dbus suggests:
ii  dbus-x11                      1.2.24-2   simple interprocess messaging syst

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