Ahah - you never mentioned logic - that's a totally different issue!  Good
luck with it anyway.
Tony

2009/11/22 Rajiv Prasad <email address hidden>

> @Tony:
>
> I'm running neither wicd nor NM.  On my iBook G3 both have problems
> connecting to my Netgear and DLink wireless routers.  NM is worse of the
> two.  I finally got wireless working (Apple Airport card) using vanilla
> ifconfig/iwconfig/dhclient.  Don't want to risk the setup getting
> screwed up again just to see if U1 would work (and that is not
> guaranteed either).
>
> What I still don't understand is why U1 can't just use a properly
> working network connection without relying on wicd or NM.  This design
> choice just defies logic.
>
> Thanks so much for your reply.
>
> Rajiv
>
> --
> ubuntuone-client requires NetworkManager
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/357395
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> of the bug.
>
> Status in Ubuntu One Client: Fix Committed
>
> Bug description:
> kees      9638  2.2  0.3 273056 28324 ?        Sl   16:42   0:00
> /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/ubuntuone-client-applet --signup
>
> Messages from .xsession-errors:
> /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted/internet/_sslverify.py:5:
> DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead
>   import itertools, md5
>
> After killing it:
> Unhandled error in Deferred:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/threading.py", line 497, in __bootstrap
>     self.__bootstrap_inner()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/threading.py", line 525, in __bootstrap_inner
>     self.run()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/threading.py", line 477, in run
>     self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
> --- <exception caught here> ---
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted/python/threadpool.py",
> line 210, in _worker
>     result = context.call(ctx, function, *args, **kwargs)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted/python/context.py", line
> 59, in callWithContext
>     return self.currentContext().callWithContext(ctx, func, *args, **kw)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted/python/context.py", line
> 37, in callWithContext
>     return func(*args,**kw)
>   File
> "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/canonical/ubuntuone/oauthdesktop/auth.py",
> line 306, in ensure_access_token
>     store=True)
>   File
> "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/canonical/ubuntuone/oauthdesktop/auth.py",
> line 182, in acquire_access_token_if_online
>     '/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager')
>   File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/dbus/bus.py", line 244, in
> get_object
>     follow_name_owner_changes=follow_name_owner_changes)
>   File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/dbus/proxies.py", line 241, in
> __init__
>     self._named_service = conn.activate_name_owner(bus_name)
>   File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/dbus/bus.py", line 183, in
> activate_name_owner
>     self.start_service_by_name(bus_name)
>   File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/dbus/bus.py", line 281, in
> start_service_by_name
>     'su', (bus_name, flags)))
>   File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/dbus/connection.py", line 622, in
> call_blocking
>     message, timeout)
> dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown:
> The name org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any .service
> files
>
> Note that I do not use NetworkManager...
>
>
>