Comment 21 for bug 359440

I have used the workaround and it worked for me.

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 6:25 AM, Paco Soberón <email address hidden> wrote:

> Confirmed that it's still happening in upgrades from 8.10. And that
> workaround (including blacklist line in config file) still works.
>
> --
> checkbox: run crashed with DBusException in call_blocking()
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/359440
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>
> Status in “checkbox” source package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed
> Status in checkbox in Ubuntu Jaunty: Fix Committed
>
> Bug description:
> checkbox (System -> Administration -> System Testing) fails to start for
> systems that have been upgraded from intrepid.
>
> TESTCASE:
> run checkbox-gtk; on failure, a python traceback will occur, ending with:
> dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied:
> Connection ":1.39" is not allowed to own the service "com.ubuntu.checkbox"
> due to security policies in the configuration file
>
> Workaround:
> In /etc/checkbox.d/checkbox.ini, manually add
>
> blacklist = backend_manager
>
> underneath the section heading [checkbox/plugins]
>

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Norris