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gnychis
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 Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 5:01 pm Post subject: ivman broke, "couldn't drop root privileges" [SOLV |
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Hey guys,
I did an emerge --update world the other night, and i dont know if ivman updated, or if udev updated or if hal updated.... but one of them updated and broke ivman
ivman used to run fine, but now everytime i try to start it as root or user:
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monster hedpe # ivman
manager.c:1340 (do_startup_configure) Directory /etc/ivman/ will be used for configuration files.
manager.c:259 (set_mount_command) No mount command was specified in IvmConfigBase.xml. Ivman will try to automatically detect the command to use. If Ivman incorrectly detects the program(s) available on your system, first make sure the program(s) are in the default shell PATH, then please report it as a bug.
manager.c:291 (set_mount_command) pmount-hal detection skipped, as we are a root instance of Ivman. pmount-hal is only used for user instances.
manager.c:333 (set_mount_command) pmount accepts -u <umask>
manager.c:336 (set_mount_command) pmount was found on your system. It will be used for mounting.
manager.c:768 (ivm_run_command) Running: echo 0 > /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/lock
manager.c:1387 (main) ivman 0.6.9, http:/ivman.sourceforge.net
manager.c:1392 (main) Compiled against HAL 0.5.x or later
manager.c:1396 (main) Running in system mode.
daemonize.c:123 (dropPrivileges) Can't drop privileges, user not specified.
manager.c:1417 (main) Couldn't drop privileges, exiting!
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Here are my versions:
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monster hedpe # emerge udev hal ivman -pv
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild R ] sys-fs/udev-079-r1 (-selinux) 0 kB
[ebuild R ] sys-apps/hal-0.5.5.1-r3 -acpi -debug -doc -pam_console -pcmcia (-selinux) 0 kB
[ebuild R ] sys-apps/ivman-0.6.9 -debug 0 kB
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I also tried ivman-0.6.8 (unmasked version) and it has the same problem. I have no updates pending in etc-update either.
Thanks!
George
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spatil
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Hi All,
I'm having exactly the same problem. Can anybody help?!
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gnychis
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| Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 5:58 am Post subject: |
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it seems as though, etc-update should have caught a change in one of the configuration files, but it doesn't
rm -fr /etc/ivman
then run ivman as root, it'll recreate the configuration files and run without a problem |
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JeliJami
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| gnychis wrote: | it seems as though, etc-update should have caught a change in one of the configuration files, but it doesn't
rm -fr /etc/ivman
then run ivman as root, it'll recreate the configuration files and run without a problem |
not with these versions 
| Code: | emerge -pv udev dbus hal ivman
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild R ] sys-fs/udev-079-r1 (-selinux) 0 kB
[ebuild R ] sys-apps/dbus-0.60-r4 -X -debug -doc -gcj -gtk -mono +python -qt (-selinux) +xml2 0 kB
[ebuild R ] sys-apps/hal-0.5.5.1-r3 +acpi -debug -doc -pam_console -pcmcia (-selinux) 0 kB
[ebuild R ] sys-apps/ivman-0.6.10 -debug 0 kB
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Series of commands:
| Code: | # rm -rf /etc/ivman/
# /usr/bin/ivman
manager.c:1340 (do_startup_configure) Directory /etc/ivman/ will be used for configuration files.
manager.c:437 (ivm_test_configs) Settings directory does not exist, attempting to create it...
manager.c:768 (ivm_run_command) Running: /bin/mkdir -p /etc/ivman/
manager.c:492 (ivm_test_configs) Configuration file /etc/ivman/IvmConfigActions.xml not found, creating one with default content...
manager.c:492 (ivm_test_configs) Configuration file /etc/ivman/IvmConfigBase.xml not found, creating one with default content...
manager.c:492 (ivm_test_configs) Configuration file /etc/ivman/IvmConfigProperties.xml not found, creating one with default content...
manager.c:492 (ivm_test_configs) Configuration file /etc/ivman/IvmConfigConditions.xml not found, creating one with default content...
# pgrep ivman # no output, hence not running
# vi /etc/ivman/IvmConfigBase.xml
set fork to false, debug to true
# /usr/bin/ivman
manager.c:1340 (do_startup_configure) Directory /etc/ivman/ will be used for configuration files.
manager.c:259 (set_mount_command) No mount command was specified in IvmConfigBase.xml. Ivman will try to automatically detect the command to use. If Ivman incorrectly detects the program(s) available on your system, first make sure the program(s) are in the default shell PATH, then please report it as a bug.
manager.c:291 (set_mount_command) pmount-hal detection skipped, as we are a root instance of Ivman. pmount-hal is only used for user instances.
manager.c:333 (set_mount_command) pmount accepts -u <umask>
manager.c:336 (set_mount_command) pmount was found on your system. It will be used for mounting.
manager.c:768 (ivm_run_command) Running: echo 0 > /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/lock
manager.c:1387 (main) ivman 0.6.10, http:/ivman.sourceforge.net
manager.c:1392 (main) Compiled against HAL 0.5.x or later
manager.c:1396 (main) Running in system mode.
daemonize.c:123 (dropPrivileges) Can't drop privileges, user not specified.
manager.c:1417 (main) Couldn't drop privileges, exiting!
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| Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 11:12 am Post subject: |
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found an /etc/ivman directory on a backup
not even sure what version it is from
main difference related to this problem is the following snippet from /etc/ivman/IvmConfigBase.xml:
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<!-- user for Ivman to run as. You can then setup sudo rules for this
user. -->
<ivm:Option name="user" value="ivman" />
<!-- group for Ivman to run as. Should have permissions to run 'pmount'. -->
<ivm:Option name="group" value="plugdev" />
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with this code, drop privileges error solved!
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interesting... theres something really odd about ivman, i definately wish it had better documentation and some sort of support mailing list
glad you found your problem 
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