[Bug 245596] [NEW] information provided by System Services is incorrect

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Running Kubuntu gutsy amd64.

Go to System Settings | System Services. The status of many of the
listed services is incorrect. Many of the services are listed as "not
running" when in fact they are running. This bug has been confirmed by
several users on the Kubuntu-users reflector. (See
<164903.35828.qm at web52806.mail.re2.yahoo.com> and the following messages
in that thread.)

This bug does not seem to be confined to 64-bit gutsy; that just happens
to be the version I am running.

It is possible that this bug represents a security vulnerability:
although I have seen only cases in which a service is listed as "not
running" when in fact it is running, if the opposite also occurs then it
is possible that a user might believe that a security-related service is
running when in fact it is not running. Since I haven't seen an instance
in which the status is mis-reported for a process that is actually NOT
running, I will not list this as a security vulnerability. However, I
encourage the security team to look at this bug to determine whether
there are any cases in which the status of NOT-running services is
misreported.

** Affects: kdebase (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Confirmed

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information provided by System Services is incorrect
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/245596
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