[OpenIndiana-discuss] Bugs 4043 and 4067

[Milan Jurik]

Hi,

On po, 2014-01-27 at 09:22 -0500, Stephen S. Jones wrote:
> OpenIndiana Community (OpenHoosiers?),
> Bugs #4043 and #4067 recently were classified as complete and were closed.  From my perspective and through the most current updates, neither issue is resolved.
> 

I am not usre if you are insterested in #4042 or #4043.

I can reproduce #4042 and did not investigate it yet.

Currently I am not able to reproduce #4043 with a9. Also I cannot
reproduce #4067 with a9. I hope to find some time in the next days to
investigate it more. And it is 2 years already I was debugging RBAC
related issues, so it takes time to refresh knowledge :-(

Best regards,

Milan

> My production hardware was running 151a7 and was updated last August to 151a8 until bugs 4042 and 4067 manifested themselves.  I backed out to a Boot Environment (BE) of 151a8 which did not manifest the bugs.  Since I cannot trust my productive hardware on unreliable updates, I have been testing updates on a VMWare virtual machine (vm).  This vm was installed using oi-dev-151a8-live-x86.iso on about 20 December and updated using # pkg update -v.
> 
> Still, as in late last August, USB drives can be mounted but not unmounted as me, the only user, logged-in in gnome.  As root with su in the command-line, I can # umount /media/the-USB-drive.  Likewise, no trash can appears on the bottom gnome panel on the Desktop.  Neither "Trash" nor "Computer" can be accessed by their buttons under Places in a File Browser.  Also, "Computer" cannot be accessed by its icon in the Main Toolbar of a File Browser.  Other manifestations of the bugs exist including the ability to use alacarte to create and to edit gui launchers.
> 
> As Predrag (wiki.oi on 25 Nov 2013), I am starting to believe that the errors are being caused by authorizations and privileges of the RBAC system.  As Milan suggested to Gary in comments at the bottom of bug 4067, I checked my RBAC profiles.  Issuing “profiles” reported that I do have “Console User” as well as “Suspend to RAM”, “Suspend to Disk” “Brightness”, “CPU Power Management”, “Network Autoconf User”, “Basic Solaris User”, and “All”.  Experimenting, I also assigned to myself the profiles of “Desktop Removable Media User”, “Primary Administrator”, and “Software Installation”.  The additional profiles had no effect.  Issuing “roles” indicates that I have the role of “root”.
> 
> I had been a Solaris user and system administrator from Solaris 2.5.1 through Solaris 10.  I have been using OpenIndiana since 151a5.  Unbeknownst to me at the time, RBAC became a regular part of Solaris with version 10.  Here with OI 151a9, I am ill prepared to troubleshoot the effects of RBAC on various programs and operations.  I hope that one of us OpenHoosiers with experience in RBAC can pursue bugs 4043 and 4067 again with the hypothesis that RBAC is the cause and solution.
> 
> Thanks
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