Package: network-manager Version: 1.8.0-5 Severity: normal Hi,
I'm running Debian sid, with Xfce desktop environment and network-manager. Since few days after Stretch release (and with a lot of post-release upgrades), I can't toggle the network and wifi in network-manager. In nm-applet the checkboxes are greyed, with nmcli I get: corsac@scapa: nmcli general permissions PERMISSION VALUE org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-network no org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-wifi no org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-wwan no org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-wimax no org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.sleep-wake no org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.network-control auth org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wifi.share.protected no org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wifi.share.open no org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.system auth org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.own auth org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.hostname auth org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.global-dns auth org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.reload auth org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.checkpoint-rollback auth org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-statistics no while pkaction seems to indicate it should be working as long as I am active: corsac@scapa: pkaction --verbose --action-id org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.network-control org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.network-control: description: Allow control of network connections message: System policy prevents control of network connections vendor: NetworkManager vendor_url: http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager icon: nm-icon implicit any: auth_admin implicit inactive: yes implicit active: yes corsac@scapa: pkaction --verbose --action-id org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-network org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-network: description: Enable or disable system networking message: System policy prevents enabling or disabling system networking vendor: NetworkManager vendor_url: http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager icon: nm-icon implicit any: no implicit inactive: no implicit active: yes corsac@scapa: pkaction --verbose --action-id org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-wifi org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-wifi: description: Enable or disable WiFi devices message: System policy prevents enabling or disabling WiFi devices vendor: NetworkManager vendor_url: http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager icon: nm-icon implicit any: no implicit inactive: no implicit active: yes And loginctl seems to consider my session active: corsac@scapa: loginctl list-sessions SESSION UID USER SEAT TTY 2 1000 corsac seat0 1 sessions listed. corsac@scapa: loginctl show-session 2 Id=2 User=1000 Name=corsac Timestamp=Wed 2017-06-21 20:49:32 CEST TimestampMonotonic=16875748 VTNr=7 Seat=seat0 Display=:0 Remote=no Service=lightdm Desktop=xfce Scope=session-2.scope Leader=1514 Audit=2 Type=x11 Class=user Active=yes State=active IdleHint=no IdleSinceHint=0 IdleSinceHintMonotonic=0 LockedHint=no I assume there's something fishy along the line, I'm unsure if it's really in NetworkManager or earlier (any pointer appreciated). Regards, -- Yves-Alexis -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (450, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages network-manager depends on: ii adduser 3.115 ii dbus 1.10.20-1 ii init-system-helpers 1.48 ii libaudit1 1:2.7.7-1+b1 ii libbluetooth3 5.43-2 ii libc6 2.24-12 ii libcurl3-gnutls 7.52.1-5 ii libglib2.0-0 2.52.3-1 ii libgnutls30 3.5.13-2 ii libjansson4 2.9-1 ii libmm-glib0 1.6.8-1 ii libndp0 1.6-1+b1 ii libnewt0.52 0.52.20-1+b1 ii libnl-3-200 3.2.27-2 ii libnm0 1.8.0-5 ii libpam-systemd 233-9 ii libpolkit-agent-1-0 0.113-6 ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.113-6 ii libpsl5 0.17.0-4 ii libreadline7 7.0-3 ii libselinux1 2.6-3+b2 ii libsystemd0 233-9 ii libteamdctl0 1.26-1+b1 ii libudev1 233-9 ii libuuid1 2.29.2-1 ii lsb-base 9.20161125 ii policykit-1 0.113-6 ii udev 233-9 ii wpasupplicant 2:2.4-1 Versions of packages network-manager recommends: ii crda 3.18-1 ii dnsmasq-base 2.77-2 ii iptables 1.6.1-2 pn iputils-arping <none> ii isc-dhcp-client 4.3.5-3 ii modemmanager 1.6.8-1 pn ppp <none> Versions of packages network-manager suggests: pn libteam-utils <none> -- no debconf information

