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network-manager-applet package

  1. Bug #289466
  2. Comment #25

Comment 25 for bug 289466

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Dave Edwards (dle) wrote : Re: Network Manager 0.7 applet not Appearing if there are managed entries in /etc/network/interfaces

Adding to the hue and cry.

Encountered this after a reboot of 8.10.

$ uname -a
Linux bigstory 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Tue Nov 4 19:33:20 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

$ apt-cache policy network-manager-gnome
network-manager-gnome:
  Installed: 0.7~~svn20081020t000444-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.7~~svn20081020t000444-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.7~~svn20081020t000444-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ cat /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto dsl-provider
iface dsl-provider inet ppp
pre-up /sbin/ifconfig eth0 up # line maintained by pppoeconf
provider dsl-provider

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet manual

$ ifconfig | grep ^[[:alnum:]]
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:2f:75:b9:db
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol

$ nm-applet

** (nm-applet:11935): WARNING **: <WARN> applet_dbus_manager_start_service(): Could not acquire the NetworkManagerUserSettings service.
  Message: 'Connection ":1.98" is not allowed to own the service "org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings" due to security policies in the configuration file'

(nm-applet:11935): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

$ sudo nm-applet
[sudo] password for dle:

** (nm-applet:11936): WARNING **: No connections defined

** (nm-applet:11936): WARNING **: <WARN> constructor(): Invalid connection: 'NMSettingConnection' / 'type' invalid: 3

...I think the result of the sudo command might relate to my having configured my dsl connection (a pppoe one) with pppoeconf --- which I did because I didn't succeed with nm's gui tool.