No user session dbus service for GNOME PackageKit

[David D Lowe]

Binary package hint: packagekit-gnome

The example code referenced in the PackageKit FAQ does not work:
http://www.packagekit.org/pk-faq.html#session-methods

It raises this exception:
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.PackageKit was not provided by any .service files

This bug can be fixed by providing a .service file in /usr/share/dbus-1/services/, named org.freedesktop.PackageKit.service, with the following contents:

[D-BUS Service]
Name=org.freedesktop.PackageKit
Exec=/usr/bin/gpk-dbus-service

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: packagekit-gnome 2.29.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.39-generic-pae 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Aug 14 15:43:33 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: packagekit-gnome