Why oh why is it now so complicated???? chkconfig was usable by the
average skilled user; systemctl is NOT!
On 01/01/2012 08:03 AM, Claude Jones wrote:
On 12/31/2011 10:15 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> With the resent talk about dbus problems, I did a grep of messages for
> dbus and found FREQUENT:
>
> Dec 31 21:59:50 lx120e dbus-daemon[981]: dbus[981]: [system] Activating
> service name='net.reactivated.Fprint' (using servicehelper)
> Dec 31 21:59:50 lx120e dbus[981]: [system] Activating service
> name='net.reactivated.Fprint' (using servicehelper)
> Dec 31 21:59:50 lx120e dbus-daemon[981]: Launching FprintObject
> Dec 31 21:59:50 lx120e dbus-daemon[981]: dbus[981]: [system]
> Successfully activated service 'net.reactivated.Fprint'
> Dec 31 21:59:50 lx120e dbus[981]: [system] Successfully activated
> service 'net.reactivated.Fprint'
> Dec 31 21:59:50 lx120e dbus-daemon[981]: ** Message: D-Bus service
> launched with name: net.reactivated.Fprint
> Dec 31 21:59:50 lx120e dbus-daemon[981]: ** Message: entering main loop
>
> What is Fprint and why is it getting reactivated?
It's the fingerprint reader driver.
Why it's being reactivated I don't know.
This page should help you figure out how to turn it off if you don't
need it:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Systemd
Well systemctl does NOT list Fprint.
I did find the following files:
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/net.reactivated.Fprint.conf
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/net.reactivated.Fprint.service
[root@lx120e ~]# cat /etc/dbus-1/system.d/net.reactivated.Fprint.conf
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- XML -*-
-->
<!DOCTYPE busconfig PUBLIC
"-//freedesktop//DTD D-BUS Bus Configuration 1.0//EN"
"http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/dbus/1.0/busconfig.dtd">
<busconfig>
<!-- Only root can own the service -->
<policy user="root">
<allow own="net.reactivated.Fprint"/>
</policy>
<!-- Anyone can talk to the service -->
<policy context="default">
<allow send_destination="net.reactivated.Fprint"/>
<allow send_interface="net.reactivated.Fprint"/>
</policy>
</busconfig>
[root@lx120e ~]# cat
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/net.reactivated.Fprint.service
[D-BUS Service]
Name=net.reactivated.Fprint
Exec=/usr/libexec/fprintd
User=root
So I tried:
systemctl status net.reactivated.Fprint
and got:
Failed to issue method call: Unit name net.reactivated.Fprint is not valid.
Now what?