nm-applet+pulseaudio+power do not start after upgrade

[Louis Bouchard]

After standard upgrade of some packages, the nm-applet, pulseaudio, power management indicators no longer start. This is the history of what was upgraded :
Start-Date: 2011-07-28 12:53:44
Upgrade: libdbus-1-3:amd64 (1.4.6-1ubuntu6, 1.4.6-1ubuntu6.1), indicator-multiload:amd64 (0.2-0+31~9~15~natty1, 0.2-0+31~10~15~natty1), dbus:amd64 (1.4.6-1ubuntu6, 1.4.6-1ubuntu6.1), libpng12-0:amd64 (1.2.44-1ubuntu3, 1.2.44-1ubuntu3.1), dbus-x11:amd64 (1.4.6-1ubuntu6, 1.4.6-1ubuntu6.1)
End-Date: 2011-07-28 12:54:19

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 11.04
Release: 11.04
$ apt-cache policy dbus
dbus:
  Installé : 1.4.6-1ubuntu6
  Candidat : 1.4.6-1ubuntu6.1
 Table de version :
     1.4.6-1ubuntu6.1 0
        500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty-security/main amd64 Packages
 *** 1.4.6-1ubuntu6 0
        500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Some debugging done in Montreal's office with cyphermox indicated problems with PolicyKit. There might be a regression issue.

Current status of the laptop is hardly usable (no network, no sound, etc) without manual hacking

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: dbus 1.4.6-1ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-10.46-generic 2.6.38.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Jul 28 15:58:10 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=fr:en
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: dbus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Louis Bouchard (louis)]

After consulting https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dbus/+bug/750468 which itself is a duplicate, it appears that this is the same issue. I changed GID 105 to 107 which is what was present in /etc/group and it fixed my problem.

This bug goes back to 2008 and is still hitting people. Shouldn't it be addressed ?