Bug#854866: solaar: Solaar did not have permissions to open my receiver

[gregory bahde]

Package: solaar
Version: 0.9.2+dfsg-7
Severity: grave
Tags: ipv6
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

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* What led up to the situation?
installing it
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
none yet though it i a matter a group permissions, i'll investigate soon

* What was the outcome of this action?
* What outcome did you expect instead?

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (101, 'testing'), (10, 'experimental'), (10, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages solaar depends on:
ii adduser 3.115
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.60
ii gir1.2-gtk-3.0 3.22.7-2
ii passwd 1:4.4-3
ii python-gi 3.22.0-2
ii python-pyudev 0.21.0-1
pn python:any <none>
ii udev 232-15

Versions of packages solaar recommends:
ii gir1.2-notify-0.7 0.7.7-1
ii python-dbus 1.2.4-1
ii systemd 232-15
ii upower 0.99.4-4

Versions of packages solaar suggests:
ii gir1.2-appindicator3-0.1 0.4.92-4
ii solaar-gnome3 0.9.2+dfsg-7

-- debconf information:
solaar/use_plugdev_group: false

[Stephen Kitt]

Control: tag -1 -ipv6

Hi Gregory,

On Sat, 11 Feb 2017 12:07:45 +0100, gregory bahde <gregor...@laposte.net>
wrote:

> * What led up to the situation?
> installing it
> * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
> ineffective)?
> none yet though it i a matter a group permissions, i'll investigate soon

What does

ls -l /dev/hidraw*

output? What about

getfacl /dev/hidraw*

The latter is how Solaar usually gets access to the devices.

Thanks,

Stephen

[Stephen Kitt]

Control: severity -1 important

Hi,

On Sun, 12 Feb 2017 23:31:02 +0100, Stephen Kitt <sk...@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Feb 2017 12:07:45 +0100, gregory bahde
> <gregor...@laposte.net> wrote:
> > * What led up to the situation?
> > installing it
> > * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
> > ineffective)?
> > none yet though it i a matter a group permissions, i'll investigate soon
>
> What does
>
> ls -l /dev/hidraw*
>
> output? What about
>
> getfacl /dev/hidraw*
>
> The latter is how Solaar usually gets access to the devices.

Have you had a chance to investigate? I'm downgrading the bug, the package
appears to work for others (including myself).

Regards,

Stephen

[Maik Zumstrull]

Hi Stephen,

It seems the original submitter lost interest, but I can confirm that
this happens. Not sure this is the only problem, but
/lib/udev/rules.d/60-solaar.rules only has a limited set of device
IDs:

ATTRS{idVendor}=="046d", ATTRS{idProduct}=="c52b", GOTO="solaar_apply"
ATTRS{idVendor}=="046d", ATTRS{idProduct}=="c532", GOTO="solaar_apply"
ATTRS{idVendor}=="046d", ATTRS{idProduct}=="c52f", GOTO="solaar_apply"
ATTRS{idVendor}=="046d", ATTRS{idProduct}=="c526", GOTO="solaar_apply"

That doesn't match mine:
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 046d:c539 Logitech, Inc. USB Receiver

But solaar does recognize and use it if run as root.

Upstream has a much longer list:
https://github.com/pwr-Solaar/Solaar/blob/master/rules.d/42-logitech-unify-permissions.rules

But Debian has the latest upstream release, so I'm not sure why this
hasn't made it into the package. Probably a minor bug in the build
process.


Thanks for maintaining the package

Maik

[Stephen Kitt]

Hi Mark,

Thanks for confirming, I’ll upload a fixed version.

Regards,

Stephen