$ 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'
...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.
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 manager- gnome: 0t000444- 0ubuntu1 0t000444- 0ubuntu1 0t000444- 0ubuntu1 0 archive. ubuntu. com intrepid/main Packages dpkg/status
network-
Installed: 0.7~~svn2008102
Candidate: 0.7~~svn2008102
Version table:
*** 0.7~~svn2008102
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
$ 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:]] to-Point Protocol
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:2f:75:b9:db
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
ppp0 Link encap:Point-
$ nm-applet
** (nm-applet:11935): WARNING **: <WARN> applet_ dbus_manager_ start_service( ): Could not acquire the NetworkManagerU serSettings service. p.NetworkManage rUserSettings" due to security policies in the configuration file'
Message: 'Connection ":1.98" is not allowed to own the service "org.freedeskto
(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: 'NMSettingConne ction' / '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.