Bug 18991

Summary:	Introspect error with PackageKit
Product:	dbus	Reporter:	Dan Ziemba <zman0900>
Component:	core	Assignee:	Havoc Pennington <hp>
Status:	RESOLVED NOTOURBUG	QA Contact:	John (J5) Palmieri <johnp>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	stian
Version:	1.2.x
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
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i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Dan Ziemba 2008-12-09 16:30:00 UTC

When I install, update, or erase any package using yum, dbus gives an Introspect error, but the package still installs fine.  This is the error message:  

--begin--
Running Transaction
  Installing     : dgen-sdl                                                 1/1 
ERROR:dbus.proxies:Introspect error on :1.50:/org/freedesktop/PackageKit: dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient, see message bus configuration file (rejected message had interface "org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable" member "Introspect" error name "(unset)" destination ":1.50")
=============================== Leaving rpm code ===============================
--end--

This started with the dbus policy changes in 1.2.6, but I have upgraded to 1.2.8 and it still persists.  I am running Fedora 10, here is my relevant info:

kernel: 2.6.27.7-134.fc10.i686
dbus-1.2.8-1.fc10.i386
yum-3.2.20-5.fc10.noarch
PackageKit-0.3.11-4.fc10.i386
PolicyKit-0.9-4.fc10.i386

I probably can't be much help actually figuring out what is wrong here, but I am willing to test any updates or patches.

Comment 1 Stian Skjelstad 2009-02-10 02:49:39 UTC

Have you checked that this is not a red-hat specific issue, or PackageKit. Looking at the error-message, my first suspision would be the config files PackageKit/Red Hat has supplied the dbus-daemon with.

Comment 2 Simon McVittie 2011-01-26 10:14:32 UTC

Either PackageKit should let itself be introspected, or whatever is introspecting it shouldn't. Either way, this isn't D-Bus' fault.

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