Open veitw opened 3 years ago
Nevermind, I just realized that python-validity is also a DBus service that needs to be registered and not a Python module being loaded or a binary being executed by open-fprintd. :)
It works now, though I have to fight some remaining SELinux issues. I will look into this and provide packaging for Fedora once I succeeded.
hi @veitw, any recent news on this??
Hi,
I would like to contribute Fedora (and maybe RHEL/CentOS) packaging for python-validity/open-fprintd/fprintd-clients, but I have problems getting open-fprintd to talk to my fingerprint reader (06cb:009a Synaptics, Inc. Metallica MIS Touch Fingerprint Reader):
As far as I understood, my fingerprint reader is supported by python-validity, and
$ sudo validity-led-dance
lets its LED flash, so it seems to work.But
$ fprintd-enroll
exits just displayinglist_devices failed:
. As open-fprintd emits a correspondingDEBUG:root:GetDefaultDevice
messages whenever I run$ fprintd-enroll
, I suppose that communication between fprintd-enroll and open-fprintd is working, but open-fprintd either fails to run python-validity or to enumerate the fingerprint reader devices:Any hints on how to debug this further? Did I miss anything, e.g. do I have to set up e.g. a configuration file referring to python-validity?
The currently packaged files of both packages are:
Thanks in advance and best regards, // Veit