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and subject line Bug#502392: fixed in update-notifier 0.99.3debian7
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--- Begin Message ---
Subject: update-notifier: refuses to start if the admin group exists
Package: update-notifier
Version: 0.70.7.debian-4
Severity: normal
On my system update-notifier refuses to start with the message:
* (update-notifier:12663): WARNING **: not starting because user is not in
admin group
In our environment we have an admin group that is used for
administrative staff (not system administrators).
It took me quite a while to figure out what was going on and how to fix
it (not documented in /usr/share/doc or the manual page). It turns out
you should use the --force option in this situation.
Please don't use a normal group name that is not a default system group
(perhaps the adm or operator group should be used instead if it contains
any members) or provide some other means for administrators to hide
update-notifier for users that shouldn't be made aware of updates.
Also, please document this mechanism (and the --force option) in the
manual page. (I found it when I was looking at the source)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages update-notifier depends on:
ii dbus [dbus-1-utils] 1.2.1-3 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii gksu 2.0.0-5 graphical frontend to su
ii hal 0.5.11-3 Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.20-2 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.22.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libbonobo2-0 2.22.0-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.22.0-1 The Bonobo UI library
ii libc6 2.7-14 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.6.4-6 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.1-3 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.76-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libgconf2-4 2.22.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.2-1 library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.6-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome2-0 2.20.1.1-1 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.20.1.1-1 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgnomeui-0 2.20.1.1-2 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 1:2.22.0-5 GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.11-3 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libhal1 0.5.11-3 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii libice6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libnotify1 [libnotify1-g 0.4.4-3 sends desktop notifications to a n
ii liborbit2 1:2.14.13-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpango1.0-0 1.20.5-2 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpopt0 1.14-4 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libsm6 2:1.0.3-2 X11 Session Management library
ii libx11-6 2:1.1.5-2 X11 client-side library
ii libxml2 2.6.32.dfsg-4 GNOME XML library
ii notification-daemon 0.3.7-1+b1 a daemon that displays passive pop
ii python 2.5.2-2 An interactive high-level object-o
ii python-apt 0.7.7.1 Python interface to libapt-pkg
ii update-manager 0.68.debian-6 GNOME application that manages sof
ii update-notifier-common 0.70.7.debian-4 Files shared between update-notifi
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: update-notifier
Source-Version: 0.99.3debian7
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
update-notifier, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
update-notifier-common_0.99.3debian7_all.deb
to main/u/update-notifier/update-notifier-common_0.99.3debian7_all.deb
update-notifier_0.99.3debian7.dsc
to main/u/update-notifier/update-notifier_0.99.3debian7.dsc
update-notifier_0.99.3debian7.tar.gz
to main/u/update-notifier/update-notifier_0.99.3debian7.tar.gz
update-notifier_0.99.3debian7_amd64.deb
to main/u/update-notifier/update-notifier_0.99.3debian7_amd64.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Julian Andres Klode <[email protected]> (supplier of updated update-notifier
package)
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Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:53:45 +0100
Source: update-notifier
Binary: update-notifier update-notifier-common
Architecture: source amd64 all
Version: 0.99.3debian7
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Julian Andres Klode <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Julian Andres Klode <[email protected]>
Description:
update-notifier - Daemon which notifies about package updates
update-notifier-common - Files shared between update-notifier and adept
Closes: 493653 502392 594220 604530
Changes:
update-notifier (0.99.3debian7) unstable; urgency=low
.
* src/update-notifier:
- Use 'sudo' group instead of 'admin' group (Closes: #502392)
- If 'sudo' contains no members, treat every user as an admin.
* src/reboot.c: Reboot fixes (Closes: #594220)
- reboot via GNOME Session: use Shutdown() instead of RequestReboot()
- reboot via HAL: Replace by ConsoleKit approach (Closes: #604530)
* Display currently active transactions even for normal users.
* Correctly detect Debian security updates (Closes: #493653).
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