[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#514701: bluetooth-applet segfaults when user is not in the netdev group

[Evgeni Golov]

Package: bluez-gnome
Version: 0.27-1
Severity: important

Hi,

until today I never was part of the netdev group, and bluetooth-applet
always worked fine. But today I wanted to send a file to my mobile,
pressed Fn+F5 on my keyboard to enable BT and just saw bluetooth-applet dying.

Started on a terminal it said
Bluetooth OBEX server failed: Bluez DBus interface not available
when starting up and segfaulted as soon I enabled BT on my laptop again.
gdb didn't want to tell me anything interesting, even not when I recompiled
bluez-gnome with nostrip.

I started browsing the BTS and found #506677, that says I should add myself
to netdev. I did so and even without a "newgrp" or relogin the applet works
fine again. The other way removing me from the netdev group and it will
segfault again.

IMHO
1. this requirement should be documented
2. bluetooth-applet should not die if it's not met

Regards
Evgeni

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-x31-1
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages bluez-gnome depends on:
ii  dbus                          1.2.1-5    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  gconf2                        2.22.0-1   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-icon-theme              2.22.0-1   GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  libatk1.0-0                   1.22.0-1   The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                         2.7-18     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                     1.6.4-7    The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.1-5    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  libglib2.0-0                  2.16.6-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.12.11-4  The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libhal1                       0.5.11-8   Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libnotify1 [libnotify1-gtk2.1 0.4.4-3    sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  libpango1.0-0                 1.20.5-3   Layout and rendering of internatio

Versions of packages bluez-gnome recommends:
ii  bluez-utils                   3.36-3     Bluetooth tools and daemons
pn  gnome-vfs-obexftp             <none>     (no description available)

bluez-gnome suggests no packages.

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