[Karmic] when upgrading, gnome-power-manager should not be restarted as root

[Andrew Cowie]

Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager

It seems that after a package upgrade, suddenly a second gnome-power-manager is run (resulting in two GtkStatusIcons in the NotificationArea applet tray) which is wong.

This is bad enough, but far worse is that the second gnome-power-manager process is being run as root, which is wrong and a security weakness.

The package upgrade should a) not start a new gnome-power-manager process and b) suggest the user log out and log back int again, thereby starting a new session and a new gnome-power-manager process.

AfC

[Kees Cook (kees)]

I have not been able to reproduce this. Did you take any unusual steps during your upgrade?

[Andrew Cowie (afcowie)]

On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 23:41 +0000, Kees Cook wrote:
> I have not been able to reproduce this. Did you take any unusual steps
> during your upgrade?

No. Nothing unusual at all. But it's been happening a lot (I tested a
number of permutations of logouts, reboots, etc just to make sure I
wasn't doing anything illicit)

AfC
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[Andrew Cowie (afcowie)]

It just happened again. After ~5 days with no upgrades, the largish upgrade stack that just landed resulted in there suddenly being two gnome-power-managers running, one of which was owned by root.

AfC

[Kees Cook (kees)]

I'm still unable to reproduce this. Perhaps other g-p-m developers can help diagnose this.

[David Tombs (dgtombs)]

Andrew, can you try to find out what exactly is starting the root g-p-m? If you can reproduce this on a package upgrade, can you attach the relevant apt log? (/var/log/apt)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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