Debian Bug report logs - #385495
"Unknown group "netdev" in message bus configuration file" when starts

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Christian Surchi <csurchi@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: "Unknown group "netdev" in message bus configuration file" when starts

Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 19:46:09 +0200

Package: avahi-daemon
Version: 0.6.13-1
Severity: normal

This is what I recently see...
I don't know if it happen also during boot because dbus doesn't start
because of problem with libnss-ldap related to another bug.

zorn:~# /etc/init.d/dbus restart
Stopping Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon: avahi-daemon.
Stopping Hardware abstraction layer: hald.
Stopping system message bus: dbus.
Starting system message bus: dbusUnknown group "netdev" in message bus
configuration file
.
Starting Hardware abstraction layer: hald.
Starting Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon: avahi-daemon.

I see this part in /etc/dbus-1/system.d/avahi-dbus.conf

  <!-- Allow everything, including access to SetHostName to users of the
group "netdev" -->
  <policy group="netdev">
    <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Avahi"/>
    <allow receive_sender="org.freedesktop.Avahi"/>
  </policy>
</busconfig>

thanks 
Christian

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686
Locale: LANG=it_IT@euro, LC_CTYPE=it_IT@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages avahi-daemon depends on:
ii  adduser                      3.97        Add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                         0.62-4      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libavahi-common3             0.6.13-1    Avahi common library
ii  libavahi-core4               0.6.13-1    Avahi's embeddable mDNS/DNS-SD lib
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcap1                      1:1.10-14   support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libdaemon0                   0.10-1      lightweight C library for daemons
ii  libdbus-1-2                  0.62-4      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexpat1                    1.95.8-3.2  XML parsing C library - runtime li

Versions of packages avahi-daemon recommends:
ii  libnss-mdns                   0.8-4      NSS module for Multicast DNS name 

-- no debconf information

Message #10 received at 385495@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: EspeonEefi <espeoneefi@eep.dnsalias.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <385495@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Confirmation of missing netdev group bug in avahi-daemon startup

Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 19:05:27 -0400

Package: avahi-daemon
Version: 0.6.13-2
Followup-For: Bug #385495

I'm just confirming that I'm seeing this bug on boot now. I believe this
bug is related to the first item in the Avahi 0.6.13 changelog:

"Add a new D-Bus method for changing the mDNS host name during runtime.
This functionality is only available to members of the UNIX group
"netdev", which is the same access group that is enforced by GNOME's
NetworkManager daemon. Since NM will probably be the most prominent user
of this new method, we decided to limit access to the same group. The
access group can be set by passing --with-avahi-priv-access-group= to
"configure". If you need more sophisticated access control you can
freely edit /etc/dbus/system.d/avahi-dbus.conf."

I do not have network-manager installed; thus, the group "netdev" does
not exist on my machine.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages avahi-daemon depends on:
ii  adduser                      3.97        Add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                         0.62-4      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libavahi-common3             0.6.13-2    Avahi common library
ii  libavahi-core4               0.6.13-2    Avahi's embeddable mDNS/DNS-SD lib
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcap1                      1:1.10-14   support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libdaemon0                   0.10-1      lightweight C library for daemons
ii  libdbus-1-2                  0.62-4      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexpat1                    1.95.8-3.2  XML parsing C library - runtime li

Versions of packages avahi-daemon recommends:
pn  libnss-mdns                   <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information

Message #15 received at 385495@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Laurent Bonnaud <bonnaud@lis.inpg.fr>

To: 385495@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Confirmation of missing netdev group bug in avahi-daemon startup

Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 19:27:19 +0200

Hi,

I am also seeing this bug.

The netdev group is created by the dhcdbd package.  How about having
avahi-daemon depend on dhcdbd ?

-- 
Laurent Bonnaud.
http://www.lis.inpg.fr/pages_perso/bonnaud/

Message #22 received at 385495@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Luca Capello <luca@pca.it>

To: 385495@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Confirmation of missing netdev group bug in avahi-daemon startup

Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 23:41:11 +0200

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tags 385495 + patch
thanks

Package: avahi-daemon
Version: 0.6.14-1

Hello!

I came across this bug after having found #389243 [1], which is a
duplicate of this one (and thus I merged them).

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 19:27:19 +0200, Laurent Bonnaud wrote:
> The netdev group is created by the dhcdbd package.  How about having
> avahi-daemon depend on dhcdbd ?

Please don't do this, this is a bug against Policy Policy §9.2.2, as I
already explained at [2].

The attached patch derives from the dhcdbd.postinst:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
--- avahi-daemon.postinst	2006-10-10 23:28:51.000000000 +0200
+++ avahi-daemon.postinst_gismo	2006-10-10 23:32:15.000000000 +0200
@@ -26,6 +26,11 @@
         usermod -d /var/run/avahi-daemon avahi
     fi
 
+    # create the netdev group used by dbus
+    if ! getent group netdev > /dev/null; then
+        addgroup --quiet --system netdev
+    fi
+
     # Ask the bus to reload the config file
     if [ -x "/etc/init.d/dbus" ]; then
       invoke-rc.d dbus force-reload || true
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

Footnotes: 
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=389243
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=389243;msg=25

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Message #29 received at 385495-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd@debian.org>

To: 385495-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#385495: fixed in avahi 0.6.14-2

Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:32:17 -0700

Source: avahi
Source-Version: 0.6.14-2

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
avahi, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

avahi-autoipd_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
  to pool/main/a/avahi/avahi-autoipd_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
avahi-daemon_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
  to pool/main/a/avahi/avahi-daemon_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
avahi-discover_0.6.14-2_all.deb
  to pool/main/a/avahi/avahi-discover_0.6.14-2_all.deb
avahi-dnsconfd_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
  to pool/main/a/avahi/avahi-dnsconfd_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
avahi-utils_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
  to pool/main/a/avahi/avahi-utils_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
avahi_0.6.14-2.diff.gz
  to pool/main/a/avahi/avahi_0.6.14-2.diff.gz
avahi_0.6.14-2.dsc
  to pool/main/a/avahi/avahi_0.6.14-2.dsc
libavahi-client-dev_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
  to pool/main/a/avahi/libavahi-client-dev_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
libavahi-client3_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
  to pool/main/a/avahi/libavahi-client3_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
libavahi-common-data_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
  to pool/main/a/avahi/libavahi-common-data_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
libavahi-common-dev_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
  to pool/main/a/avahi/libavahi-common-dev_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
libavahi-common3_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
  to pool/main/a/avahi/libavahi-common3_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
libavahi-compat-howl-dev_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
  to pool/main/a/avahi/libavahi-compat-howl-dev_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
libavahi-compat-howl0_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
  to pool/main/a/avahi/libavahi-compat-howl0_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
libavahi-compat-libdnssd-dev_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
  to pool/main/a/avahi/libavahi-compat-libdnssd-dev_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
libavahi-compat-libdnssd1_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
  to pool/main/a/avahi/libavahi-compat-libdnssd1_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
libavahi-core-dev_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
  to pool/main/a/avahi/libavahi-core-dev_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
libavahi-core4_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
  to pool/main/a/avahi/libavahi-core4_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
libavahi-glib-dev_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
  to pool/main/a/avahi/libavahi-glib-dev_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
libavahi-glib1_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
  to pool/main/a/avahi/libavahi-glib1_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
libavahi-qt3-1_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
  to pool/main/a/avahi/libavahi-qt3-1_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
libavahi-qt3-dev_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
  to pool/main/a/avahi/libavahi-qt3-dev_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
libavahi-qt4-1_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
  to pool/main/a/avahi/libavahi-qt4-1_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
libavahi-qt4-dev_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
  to pool/main/a/avahi/libavahi-qt4-dev_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
python-avahi_0.6.14-2_all.deb
  to pool/main/a/avahi/python-avahi_0.6.14-2_all.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 385495@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd@debian.org> (supplier of updated avahi package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)


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Format: 1.7
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 21:55:17 +0200
Source: avahi
Binary: python-avahi libavahi-client3 avahi-autoipd libavahi-glib-dev libavahi-common-data avahi-utils libavahi-common-dev libavahi-qt3-1 libavahi-glib1 libavahi-qt4-dev libavahi-qt4-1 avahi-dnsconfd avahi-discover libavahi-compat-libdnssd-dev libavahi-compat-howl-dev libavahi-common3 libavahi-core-dev libavahi-compat-howl0 libavahi-core4 libavahi-client-dev libavahi-compat-libdnssd1 libavahi-qt3-dev avahi-daemon
Architecture: source all powerpc
Version: 0.6.14-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Utopia Maintenance Team <pkg-utopia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd@debian.org>
Description: 
 avahi-autoipd - Avahi DNS configuration tool
 avahi-daemon - Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD daemon
 avahi-discover - Service discover user interface for avahi
 avahi-dnsconfd - Avahi DNS configuration tool
 avahi-utils - Avahi browsing, publishing and discovery utilities
 libavahi-client-dev - Development files for the Avahi client library
 libavahi-client3 - Avahi client library
 libavahi-common-data - Avahi common data files
 libavahi-common-dev - Development files for the Avahi common library
 libavahi-common3 - Avahi common library
 libavahi-compat-howl-dev - Development headers for the Avahi Howl compatibility library
 libavahi-compat-howl0 - Avahi Howl compatibility library
 libavahi-compat-libdnssd-dev - Development headers for the Avahi Apple Bonjour compatibility lib
 libavahi-compat-libdnssd1 - Avahi Apple Bonjour compatibility library
 libavahi-core-dev - Development files for Avahi's embeddable mDNS/DNS-SD library
 libavahi-core4 - Avahi's embeddable mDNS/DNS-SD library
 libavahi-glib-dev - Development headers for the Avahi glib integration library
 libavahi-glib1 - Avahi glib integration library
 libavahi-qt3-1 - Avahi Qt3 integration library
 libavahi-qt3-dev - Development headers for the Avahi Qt3 integration library
 libavahi-qt4-1 - Avahi Qt4 integration library
 libavahi-qt4-dev - Development headers for the Avahi Qt4 integration library
 python-avahi - Python utility package for Avahi
Closes: 384783 385495 386957 389243 391298 391924 392076
Changes: 
 avahi (0.6.14-2) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   [ Sebastian Dröge ]
   * debian/control:
     + Update Standards-Version to 3.7.2
     + Recommend dhcp3-client instead of non-existing dhclient
       (Closes: #392076, #391924)
     + Change QT to Qt in all descriptions (Closes: #384783)
     + Change Maintainer to pkg-utopia team
     + Add XS-X-Vcs-Svn control field
   * debian/control,
     debian/rules:
     + Don't build avahi-autoipd on something else than Linux until it is
       ported (Closes: #391298). Thanks to Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org>
       for the patch.
   * debian/patches/10_initscripts-scriptname.patch:
     + Set SCRIPTNAME variable in init scripts (Closes: #386957)
   * debian/avahi-daemon.postinst:
     + Add the netdev group unless it's already there (Closes: #385495, #389243)
   * debian/avahi-autoipd.ifup,
     debian/avahi-autoipd.ifdown,
     debian/rules,
     debian/patches/11_avahi-autoipd.action-add-routes.patch:
     + Add ifupdown scripts to set routes to allow communication between
       machines which only have an IPv4LL address assigned and those which
       only have a routable address assigned.
       See http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2004/qa1357.html for more information.
 .
   [ Sjoerd Simons ]
   * debian/avahi-autoipd.ifup,
     debian/avahi-autoipd.ifdown,
     + Also recognise the NetworkManager method and address family(?!) as valid
     for ipv4ll routes
Files: 
 9102b4623cca453b3fa2ae3d489a8ec9 1552 net optional avahi_0.6.14-2.dsc
 7d08fe511676b3a6e32e41988afb0781 13581 net optional avahi_0.6.14-2.diff.gz
 99f0671f90679aed7884befd6701aff6 23146 python optional python-avahi_0.6.14-2_all.deb
 0e5eee7dc04100dbfdad28669056ffa7 22440 net optional avahi-discover_0.6.14-2_all.deb
 49b3e612ecbe4882d9407478c59a77ce 73034 net optional avahi-daemon_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
 90c14e0990391ed8fab8f033c9e23396 30558 net optional avahi-dnsconfd_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
 e54900ce662d4b969653081df8487539 40906 net optional avahi-autoipd_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
 fac880e9b41744f4f64e948e67dea1e7 44120 net optional avahi-utils_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
 60165a64980066d7eca5c8358c71f44d 39958 libs optional libavahi-common3_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
 d76e9f511e81c59a9dacf375b9a5b90d 20614 libs optional libavahi-common-data_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
 c2611d8b351cb220d3805e698970baa9 57370 libdevel optional libavahi-common-dev_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
 943fa30ba20f79d29c0639b2fa68f4da 100882 libs optional libavahi-core4_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
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 a38bdb742babe48d644a6f5b4833b41b 52354 libdevel optional libavahi-compat-howl-dev_0.6.14-2_powerpc.deb
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Message #39 received at 385495@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Eugen Dedu <Eugen.Dedu@pu-pm.univ-fcomte.fr>

To: control@bugs.debian.org, 385495@bugs.debian.org

Subject: I do not have avahi installed

Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:04:50 +0200

reopen 385495
thanks

Hi,

I do not have avahi* installed on my system and dbus complains:
"Unknown group "netdev" in message bus configuration file"
when dbus starts.

Is there a dbus bug too (must depend on avahi*)?

Cheers,
-- 
Eugen Dedu

Message #46 received at 385495@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>

To: Eugen Dedu <Eugen.Dedu@pu-pm.univ-fcomte.fr>, 385495@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#385495: I do not have avahi installed

Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:23:05 +0200

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Eugen Dedu wrote:
> reopen 385495
> thanks
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I do not have avahi* installed on my system and dbus complains:
> "Unknown group "netdev" in message bus configuration file"
> when dbus starts.
> 
> Is there a dbus bug too (must depend on avahi*)?

No, it's not a dbus bug. Check which file in /etc/dbus-1/system.d has a
"group=netdev" line and file the bug against that package.

Michael


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Message #51 received at 385495-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Eugen Dedu <Eugen.Dedu@pu-pm.univ-fcomte.fr>

To: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>

Cc: 385495-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#385495: I do not have avahi installed

Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:49:04 +0200

Michael Biebl wrote:
> Eugen Dedu wrote:
>> reopen 385495
>> thanks
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I do not have avahi* installed on my system and dbus complains:
>> "Unknown group "netdev" in message bus configuration file"
>> when dbus starts.
>>
>> Is there a dbus bug too (must depend on avahi*)?
> 
> No, it's not a dbus bug. Check which file in /etc/dbus-1/system.d has a
> "group=netdev" line and file the bug against that package.

Yes, it's wpasupplicant, and it's fixed in unstable.

Sorry for thee time spent.

-- 
Eugen Dedu

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