"Unlock" greyed out when opening network-admin from applet [Hardy A2]

[Nanley Chery]

Binary package hint: network-manager

When opening network-admin from the gnome menu, the "Unlock" option is (rightfully?) offered. However, when doing the same from the n-m applet, the "Unlock" option is greyed out. Maybe this is also an error in policykit? Screenshots attached below:

[Steve Stalcup (vorian)]

running "sudo network-admin" returns this error:
steve@k-liger:~$ sudo network-admin

(network-admin:16148): Gtk-WARNING **: Unknown property: GtkComboBox.items

** (network-admin:16148): WARNING **: Error doing GetSessionForUnixProcess on ConsoleKit: org.freedesktop.DBus.GLib.UnmappedError.CkManagerError.Code0: Unable to lookup session information for process '16148'

** (network-admin:16148): CRITICAL **: Unable to lookup session information for process '16148'

[easthero (easthero)]

My hardy has the same problem

[Omid Mottaghi (omidmottaghi)]

only comment to agree with this problem.

[Albert Damen (albrt)]

After the upgrade of the policykit (new version 0.6-1ubuntu4), this problem still occurs.
Opening the network manager via the applet asks for the administrative password and the unlock button is greyed out.
Running gksudo network-admin in a terminal window gives the same behavior.
Only running network-admin without gksudo gives the expected behavior: the unlock button is enabled and pressing it asks for the user password.
So it seems like the applet is still using gksudo to open the network-admin.

[Albert Damen (albrt)]

This bug was fixed by an update of network-manager-applet 0.6.5-0ubuntu11
   don't use gksu in hardy anymore - policy kit hooray!