Thanks for your quick reaction, Michael. Michael Biebl schrieb: > Christoph Haas wrote: >> Package: network-manager >> Version: 0.7.1-2 >> Severity: normal > >> After I create a PPP connection (UMTS here) the connection gets killed >> approximately 12 seconds after being established. The syslog showed: >> >> NetworkManager: <WARN> pppd_timed_out(): Looks like pppd didn't initialize >> our dbus module >> >> Apparently dbus couldn't talk to the Network Manager somehow. I found >> a workaround in Ubuntu's bug report #371281 (reply #3) by removing >> the "deny" sections from /etc/dbus-1/system.d/NetworkManager.conf. > > Were you logged in as root (i.e. is there a file /var/run/console/root) when > you > get this failure? > If so, does it make a difference if you logout as root?
I was logged on in a gnome-terminal and used "su -" to get root privileges so I could watch the syslog. Now I tried with the original /etc/dbus-1/system.d/NetworkManager.conf file without having a root terminal open and the connection gets established properly and stays that way. What does this mean? Kind regards Christoph
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