Package: network-manager Version: 0.9.2.0-2 Severity: important I'm unable to do anything interesting with NetworkManager unless I kill nm-applet and re-launch it as root. I get errors such as:
** (nm-applet:2460): WARNING **: VPN Connection activation failed: (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.PermissionDenied) Not authorized to control networking. and ** (nm-applet:2460): WARNING **: Failed to add new connection: (32) Not authorized to control networking. This wasn't always the case, but I can't pinpoint exactly when the problem started. A Google search suggests that I should add myself to either the 'network' or 'netdev' group. But there is no 'network' group, and I'm already a member of 'netdev'. The groups of which I'm a member are: dialout cdrom floppy sudo plugdev games users bluetooth netdev powerdev My user account is the only one on the system, and the one created by the Debian installer. If network-manager isn't broken, then the install/setup process is. There's no user on the system other than root who can use the icon in the tray. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages network-manager depends on: ii adduser 3.113 ii dbus 1.5.8-1 ii isc-dhcp-client 4.1.1-P1-17 ii libc6 2.13-24 ii libdbus-1-3 1.5.8-1 ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.98-1 ii libgcrypt11 1.5.0-3 ii libglib2.0-0 2.30.2-4 ii libgnutls26 2.12.16-1 ii libgudev-1.0-0 175-3 ii libnl-3-200 3.2.3-2 ii libnl-route-3-200 3.2.3-2 ii libnm-glib4 0.9.2.0-1 ii libnm-util2 0.9.2.0-1 ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.104-1 ii libuuid1 2.20.1-1.2 ii lsb-base 3.2-28 ii udev 175-3 ii wpasupplicant 0.7.3-6 Versions of packages network-manager recommends: ii crda 1.1.2-1 ii dnsmasq-base 2.59-4 ii iptables 1.4.12.2-1 ii modemmanager 0.5-1 ii policykit-1 0.104-1 ii ppp 2.4.5-5 Versions of packages network-manager suggests: ii avahi-autoipd 0.6.30-6 -- Configuration Files: /etc/dbus-1/system.d/NetworkManager.conf changed: <!DOCTYPE busconfig PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD D-BUS Bus Configuration 1.0//EN" "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/dbus/1.0/busconfig.dtd"> <busconfig> <policy group="root"> <allow own="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"/> <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"/> <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.PPP"/> <allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.SecretAgent"/> <!-- Allow NM to talk to known VPN plugins; due to a bug in the D-Bus daemon, when a plugin is installed and the user immediately tries to use it, the VPN plugin's rules aren't always loaded into dbus-daemon. Those rules allow NM to talk to the plugin. Oops. Work around that by explicitly allowing NM to talk to VPN plugins here. --> <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openconnect"/> <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openswan"/> <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn"/> <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp"/> <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc"/> </policy> <policy group="netdev"> <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"/> <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable"/> <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties"/> <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"/> <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.AccessPoint"/> <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Connection.Active"/> <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Device.Cdma"/> <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Device.Wired"/> <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Device.Gsm"/> <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Device.Serial"/> <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Device.Wireless"/> <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Device"/> <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.DHCP4Config"/> <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.IP4Config"/> <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.VPN.Connection"/> <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.AgentManager"/> <!-- <deny send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_member="SetLogging"/> <deny send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_member="Sleep"/> <deny send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_member="sleep"/> <deny send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_member="wake"/> --> </policy> <policy at_console="true"> <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"/> <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable"/> <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties"/> <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"/> <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.AccessPoint"/> <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Connection.Active"/> <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Device.Cdma"/> <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Device.Wired"/> <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Device.Gsm"/> <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Device.Serial"/> <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Device.Wireless"/> <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Device"/> <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.DHCP4Config"/> <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.IP4Config"/> <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.VPN.Connection"/> <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.AgentManager"/> <deny send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_member="SetLogging"/> <deny send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_member="Sleep"/> <deny send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_member="sleep"/> <deny send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_member="wake"/> </policy> <policy context="default"> <deny own="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"/> <deny send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"/> <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Settings"/> <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.AgentManager"/> <deny send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_member="SetLogging"/> <deny send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_member="Sleep"/> <deny send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_member="sleep"/> <deny send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" send_member="wake"/> </policy> <limit name="max_replies_per_connection">512</limit> </busconfig> -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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