System testing doesn't start

Bug #363629 reported by turlinux
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checkbox (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Whenever I ru to start the "System testing" it crashes in a Ubuntu 9.04 installation

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Dependencies:
 libgcc1 1:4.3.3-5ubuntu4
 gcc-4.3-base 4.3.3-5ubuntu4
 findutils 4.4.0-2ubuntu4
 libc6 2.9-4ubuntu6
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ErrorMessage: il pacchetto libc6 è già installato e configurato
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: libc6 2.9-4ubuntu6
SourcePackage: glibc
Title: package libc6 2.9-4ubuntu6 failed to install/upgrade: il pacchetto libc6 è già installato e configurato
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

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turlinux (andrea-turli) wrote :
affects: ubuntu → checkbox (Ubuntu)
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Adam Collard (adam-collard) wrote :

The following traceback occurs when running checkbox-gtk as an unprivileged user from gnome-termnal.

$ checkbox-gtk
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/checkbox/run", line 40, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/share/checkbox/run", line 35, in main
    application = manager.create_application(sys.argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/checkbox/application.py", line 153, in create_application
    return self.application_factory(config)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/checkbox/application.py", line 70, in __init__
    self.reactor, self.registry)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/checkbox/plugin.py", line 41, in __init__
    module.register(self)
  File "/usr/share/checkbox/plugins/backend_manager.py", line 65, in register
    self.dbus_name = dbus.service.BusName(self.DBUS_BUS_NAME, self.bus)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/dbus/service.py", line 129, in __new__
    retval = bus.request_name(name, name_flags)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/dbus/bus.py", line 306, in request_name
    'su', (name, flags))
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/dbus/connection.py", line 622, in call_blocking
    message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Connection ":1.344" is not allowed to own the service "com.ubuntu.checkbox" due to security policies in the configuration file

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Dieter Guy (d-guy) wrote :

System testing seems to run fine if you throw a sudo in front of it, I just ran it with gksudo and got it up and functional without complaints, I'd guess someone just missed a line requiring it to call the standard permissions dialogue the way synaptic and the rest do.

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