[fprint] Fedora fprintd packages don't work due to dbus errors

Bastien Nocera hadess at hadess.net
Sun Jul 19 14:58:24 BST 2009


On Sun, 2009-07-19 at 14:50 +0200, Julian Sikorski wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have just upgraded from F-10 and checked out the new fingerprint
> hotness. Unfortunately, it does not work for me:
> 
> $ /usr/libexec/fprintd -t
> Launching FprintObject
> 
> ** ERROR **: Failed to get name: Connection ":1.109" is not allowed to
> own the service "net.reactivated.Fprint" due to security policies in the
> configuration file
> aborting...
> Aborted

Are you launching this as root? If not, it just won't work.

Also, what's the output of "rpm -V fprintd"?

Cheers



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