last fprintd update in Debian 10 stops detecting?
by Herve5 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5BH6E)
Hello all,
Being rather low level in Linux, I'm using a recent Lenovo Thinkpad with Debian testing (bullseye/sid) and a fingerprint reader that I successfully managed only thanks to this forum (on this thread)
All went fine untli a couple of days ago, with a new version of fprint package appearing, very curiously with apparently the same version number :
Code:herve@LinuxHerve:~$ apt-cache policy fprintd
fprintd:
Installe : 1.90.5-2
Candidat : 1.90.5-2
Table de version :
*** 1.90.5-2 500
500 http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian bullseye/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/statusI installed it without further thinking, and the fingerprint detection stopped working. I then managed to regress to the previous status of my system with something most of you will frown at, the 'Timeshift' utility, and now I locked the new version -or at least, that's what I think I did... and things work again.
I'd like to know if this happened to someone else?
[edit] here is what I got when testing in the terminal with the last version :
Code:~$ fprintd-verify
Impossible to verify: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.521" (uid=1000 pid=220405 comm="fprintd-verify ") interface="net.reactivated.Fprint.Manager" member="GetDefaultDevice" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.522" (uid=0 pid=220408 comm="/usr/libexec/fprintd ")Thank you!
Herve
Being rather low level in Linux, I'm using a recent Lenovo Thinkpad with Debian testing (bullseye/sid) and a fingerprint reader that I successfully managed only thanks to this forum (on this thread)
All went fine untli a couple of days ago, with a new version of fprint package appearing, very curiously with apparently the same version number :
Code:herve@LinuxHerve:~$ apt-cache policy fprintd
fprintd:
Installe : 1.90.5-2
Candidat : 1.90.5-2
Table de version :
*** 1.90.5-2 500
500 http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian bullseye/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/statusI installed it without further thinking, and the fingerprint detection stopped working. I then managed to regress to the previous status of my system with something most of you will frown at, the 'Timeshift' utility, and now I locked the new version -or at least, that's what I think I did... and things work again.
I'd like to know if this happened to someone else?
[edit] here is what I got when testing in the terminal with the last version :
Code:~$ fprintd-verify
Impossible to verify: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.521" (uid=1000 pid=220405 comm="fprintd-verify ") interface="net.reactivated.Fprint.Manager" member="GetDefaultDevice" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.522" (uid=0 pid=220408 comm="/usr/libexec/fprintd ")Thank you!
Herve