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GLib Application Registers a DBus name under application confinement

Bug #1176127 reported by Ted Gould on 2013-05-03

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	glib2.0 (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	High	Unassigned

Bug Description

Under application confinement applications won't be allowed to register names on DBus. GApplication returns an error if it can't do that which makes programs unhappy. Instead they should just believe they are the primary app instance if they're running under isolation.

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Ted Gould (ted) wrote on 2013-05-03:

block_app_registration.diff Edit (650 bytes, text/plain)

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Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote on 2013-05-03:

The attachment "block_app_registration.diff" seems to be a patch. If it isn't, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and if you are a member of the ~ubuntu-reviewers, unsubscribe the team.

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) on 2013-08-16

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Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) wrote on 2013-09-03:

I see that HUD access needs to use:
  dbus (send)
       bus=session
       path="/com/canonical/hud"
       interface="com.canonical.hud"
       member="RegisterApplication",

but other than that, I am not seeing other accesses. SDK applications should be using GApplication now, so this is more of a converged device bug, isn't it? If so, should the priority be adjusted and the bug retargeted?

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Ted Gould (ted) wrote on 2013-09-04: Re: [Bug 1176127] Re: GLib Application Registers a DBus name under application confinement

On Tue, 2013-09-03 at 18:17 +0000, Jamie Strandboge wrote:

> I see that HUD access needs to use:
> dbus (send)
> bus=session
> path="/com/canonical/hud"
> interface="com.canonical.hud"
> member="RegisterApplication",
>
> but other than that, I am not seeing other accesses. SDK applications
> should be using GApplication now, so this is more of a converged device
> bug, isn't it? If so, should the priority be adjusted and the bug
> retargeted?