Bug#758557: [network-manager] Re: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#758557: network-manager: not authorized to control networking
Package: network-manager Version: 0.9.10.0-1.1 I have just hit up against this bug on my Debian Testing VM. The solution for me was to follow the instructions posted here (http://jeffhoogland.blogspot.se/2012/05/howto-give-network-manager-sufficient.html), i.e. create '/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pkla' with the following contents: == [nm-applet] Identity=unix-group:netdev Action=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.* ResultAny=yes ResultInactive=no ResultActive=yes == The connection was instantly configurable (starting a VPN connection in this instance) afterwards. I had just switched away from broken gdm3 to lightdm on the VM prior to this. --- System information. --- Architecture: amd64 Kernel: Linux 3.14-2-amd64 Debian Release: jessie/sid 990 testing 10.1.0.3 500 unstable10.1.0.3 500 quodlibet-unstable 10.1.0.3 1 experimental10.1.0.3 --- Package information. --- Depends (Version) | Installed =-+- libc6 (= 2.17) | libdbus-1-3(= 1.0.2) | libdbus-glib-1-2 (= 0.102) | libgcrypt11(= 1.4.5) | libglib2.0-0 (= 2.37.3) | libgnutls-deb0-28 (= 3.2.10-0) | libgudev-1.0-0 (= 165) | libmm-glib0(= 1.0.0) | libndp0 (= 1.2) | libnewt0.52 | libnl-3-200 (= 3.2.21) | libnl-genl-3-200 (= 3.2.21) | libnl-route-3-200 (= 3.2.7) | libnm-glib4 (= 0.9.10.0) | libnm-util2 (= 0.9.10.0) | libpolkit-gobject-1-0 (= 0.101) | libreadline6 (= 6.0) | libsoup2.4-1 (= 2.39.3) | libsystemd-daemon0(= 31) | libsystemd-login0 (= 31) | libuuid1(= 2.16) | init-system-helpers(= 1.18~) | lsb-base (= 3.2-14) | wpasupplicant(= 0.7.3-1) | dbus (= 1.1.2) | udev | adduser | isc-dhcp-client (= 4.1.1-P1-4) | libpam-systemd| policykit-1 | Recommends(Version) | Installed ===-+-=== ppp (= 2.4.6) | 2.4.5+git20130610-4 dnsmasq-base| 2.71-1 iptables| 1.4.21-2 modemmanager| 1.2.0-1 crda| 1.1.2-1 Suggests (Version) | Installed -+-=== avahi-autoipd| signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Bug#758557: [network-manager] Re: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#758557: network-manager: not authorized to control networking
Scratch that, in order to work around another bug, I deleted and then attempted to recreate a VPN connection - the configuration dialog that appears is almost completely disabled. The only interesting thing coming out of stdout is lots of: = ** (nm-connection-editor:12444): WARNING **: Unsupported connection type 'generic' = When I 'sudo nm-applet', I was able to configure the VPN connection fine, so it must be a permissions issue. When the VPN connected it failed to set up a route to the subnet at the other end but I guess thats another story... signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
