Debugging dbus

[Colin Walters]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:55 PM, Dave Wood <dave at unrealize.co.uk> wrote:
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> 03:50:39.968 [E] hald_dbus.c:5845: dbus_bus_request_name(): Connection ":1.15" is not allowed to own the service "org.
> freedesktop.Hal" due to security policies in the configuration file

This permission comes from the <allow own=""/> rules.  Most likely
you're running as your login uid, or your OS vendor has changed the
default hal policy.  By default from the upstream tarball root and the
"haldaemon" user can own the name.