[please cc: me on replies] Heyho!
Not sure if this is this issue (#530024) or a different one. After the latest reboot I can not get nm (with knetworkmanager frontend) to manage my network in any way. I tried various permutations of policykit being installed or not, nm-system- settings.conf on managed or not, entries in /etc/network/interfaces there or not. At one time knetworkmanager did complain about (dbus) permissions, duplicatng the "at_console" policy into a group="netdev" section in /etc/dbus-1/system.d/NetworkManager-kde4.conf apparently fixed this. Now I don't get any complaints that I can tell but knetworkmanager still tells me "network management disabled." I'm a bit at a loss... Any help appreciated. Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-=======================================-==========================- ============================================================= ii consolekit 0.4.1-2 framework for defining and tracking users, sessions and seats ii dbus 1.2.16-2 simple interprocess messaging system ii hal 0.5.13-6 Hardware Abstraction Layer ii hal-info 20091130-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - fdi files ii network-manager 0.7.2-2 network management framework daemon ii network-manager-kde 1:0.8~svn1029786-1 KDE system tray applet for controlling NetworkManager ii policykit 0.9-4 framework for managing administrative policies and privileges ii udev 149-1 /dev/ and hotplug management daemon after killing nm-system-settings and /etc/init.d/network-manager stop, starting network-manager shows: +++ Dec 10 15:35:24 laeggerli NetworkManager: <info> starting... Dec 10 15:35:24 laeggerli NetworkManager: <info> Found radio killswitch /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_168c_1c_rfkill_phy0_wlan Dec 10 15:35:24 laeggerli NetworkManager: <info> Trying to start the system settings daemon... Dec 10 15:35:24 laeggerli nm-system-settings: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: init! Dec 10 15:35:24 laeggerli nm-system-settings: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: update_system_hostname Dec 10 15:35:24 laeggerli nm-system-settings: SCPluginIfupdown: guessed connection type (eth0) = 802-3-ethernet Dec 10 15:35:24 laeggerli nm-system-settings: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: update_connection_setting_from_if_block: name:eth0, type:802-3-ethernet, autoconnect:0, id:Ifupdown (eth0), uuid: 681b428f-beaf-8932-dce4-687ed5bae28e Dec 10 15:35:24 laeggerli nm-system-settings: SCPluginIfupdown: management mode: managed Dec 10 15:35:24 laeggerli nm-system-settings: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: devices added (udi: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_1e_68_cd_7b_3f, iface: eth0) Dec 10 15:35:24 laeggerli nm-system-settings: SCPluginIfupdown: locking wired connection setting Dec 10 15:35:24 laeggerli nm-system-settings: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: devices added (udi: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_22_69_77_40_84, iface: wlan0) Dec 10 15:35:24 laeggerli nm-system-settings: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: end _init. Dec 10 15:35:24 laeggerli nm-system-settings: Loaded plugin ifupdown: (C) 2008 Canonical Ltd. To report bugs please use the NetworkManager mailing list. Dec 10 15:35:24 laeggerli nm-system-settings: Loaded plugin keyfile: (c) 2007 - 2008 Red Hat, Inc. To report bugs please use the NetworkManager mailing list. Dec 10 15:35:24 laeggerli nm-system-settings: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: (134687104) ... get_connections. Dec 10 15:35:24 laeggerli nm-system-settings: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: (134687104) connections count: 1 +++ killing and restarting knetworkmanager doesn't add anything to that (either in .xsession-errors, on the terminal or in syslog) Kernel is 2.6.31-1-686 (tried 2.6.32-trunk but rt... whatever firmware is not available yet...); rest of the system is basically squeeze with some sid bits; originally updated from lenny. cheers -- vbi -- Die Schicksalsfrage der Menschenart scheint mir zu sein, ob und in welchem Maße es ihrer Kulturentwicklung gelingen wird, der Störung des Zusammenlebens durch den menschlichen Aggressions- und Selbstvernichtungstrieb Herr zu werden. -- Sigmund Freud -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org