nm-applet does not start at login

[Bobby]

So, when I login to Gusty (updated to the latest version, all that stuff), nm-applet does not start. It started the first and second time that I booted, but now it doesn't. I can't quite understand why... the error when I try to start it manually (bellow) sounds like it's something with authentication, and it DOES work if I sudo it... so I'll go ahead and check that out to fix it... but I think this should be fixed in the final release. I'm running a Dell Inspiron E1505, all default hardware.

bobby@bobby-laptop:~$ nm-applet --sm-disable
/bin/sh: /usr/bin/esd: not found

** (nm-applet:6629): WARNING **: <WARN> nma_dbus_init(): could not acquire its service. dbus_bus_acquire_service() says: 'Connection ":1.47" is not allowed to own the service "org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerInfo" due to security policies in the configuration file'

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

can you please opst your /var/log/syslog?

[Bobby (lostinquestions)]

Sure, the whole file is attached... I think this might have something to do with it, though... It keeps repeating this...
Oct 2 22:06:07 bobby-laptop NetworkManager: <debug> [1191384367.743120] nm_hal_device_added(): New device added (hal udi is

Thanks!
Bobby

[Bobby (lostinquestions)]

Okay, so I got bored and was exploring... I think that when I downloaded "Authentication Properties" to do an Active Directory installation it somehow changed the file, resulting in this change (in the dbus file). Basically, /etc/dbus-1/system.d/nm-applet.conf was disallowing access for everyone but root... Don't quite understand how that happened, other than that Authentication Properties did it... because besides that it was spontaneous. So, yea.

[Luca Greco (luca-greco)]

I've resolved adding a section in file /etc/dbus-1/system.d/nm-applet.conf:
<pre>
<policy group="netdev">
  <allow own="org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerInfo"/>

  <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerInfo"/>
  <allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerInfo"/>
</policy>
</pre>

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

N-M bug - might be fixed?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package network-manager-applet - 0.8~rc2-0ubuntu1

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network-manager-applet (0.8~rc2-0ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * upstream snapshot 2009-11-12 07:27:27 (GMT)
    + 4162285fd7c53e8b684e1c1513a2ba6ce865e073

  * upstream 0.8-rc1 release
      - applet: don't crash if we can't get some ActiveConnection attrs (rh: #545011)
      - editor: serialize PolicyKit auth requests (rh #462944) (LP: #462944)
      - applet: don't crash if wireless dialog goes away quickly (rh #542617)
      - eap: handle PEM files without and ending newline (rh #507315)
      - tls: require password-protected private keys
      - applet: fix connecting to system connections from wireless dialog
      - menu: show BT connections when no other devices available (rh #532049)
      - applet: don't assert when auto connections can't be made (rh #532680)
      - editor: fix various IP page tooltips (bgo #595287)
      - applet: fix animation issues
      - mobile-wizard: add a "My Country is not listed" option (rh #530981) (bgo #599705)
      - applet: fix issues with icon loading when panel is slow to resize (rh #529766)
      - applet: Connect to Hidden doesn't work for non-New networks (LP: #446394)
      - applet: nm-applet does not start at login (LP: #146896)

  * upstream 0.8-rc2 release
    - editor: protect against invalid CEPolkitButton objects (rh #549579)
    - menu: ensure active menu item is valid before trying to use it (rh #546901)
    - editor: fix bad assignment
    - core: add "Enable Mobile Broadband" menu item
    - applet: escape notification text

  [ Mathieu Trudel <email address hidden> ]
  * updated device sensitive disconnect notification patch
    - update debian/patches/lp341684_device_sensitive_disconnect_notify.patch

  [ Tony Espy <email address hidden> ]
  * add logic to map '~rc' versions to '-rc' tag format used upstream. This
    allows the upstream tags to be used, while managing to keep the version
    numbers less than the final release version.
    - update debian/rules
  * update build and runtime depends for network-manager to >= 0.8~rc2
    - update debian/control
  * backout string changes in preparation for SRU
    - add deb/debian/patches/revert_more_networks.patch
    - add deb/debian/patches/revert_disable_notifications.patch
    - add deb/debian/patches/revert_country_not_listed.patch
    - add deb/debian/patches/revert_cleartext_priv_keys.patch
    - add deb/debian/patches/revert_enable_broadband.patch
    - update debian/series
 -- Tony Espy <email address hidden> Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:16:56 -0500