Hey!

> I was installing now another 5G modem and I realized that when I was running 
> mmcli it was instantiating another ModemManager (before installed with snap) 
> than the new installed version 1.14.2 so I remove it but now I can't run 
> mmcli at all. It seems like mmcli does not find ModemManager. I tried to 
> uninstall and install libmbim, libqmi and ModemManager but the result was the 
> same. I am running it in an Ubuntu Server 20.04 version. Any help is really 
> appretiated. Thanks in advance.
>

mmcli doesn't instantiate any ModemManager process, the system-level
MM service is not DBus activatable on purpose. If mmcli doesn't find
the MM service in the bus, it will just error out and report it didn't
find any. What I don't know is whether the Ubuntu snap package for MM
may do any kind of DBus activation, I have absolutely no idea how that
is setup. @Alfonso Sanchez-Beato could you help clarifying that?

> This are the outputs:
>
> edge1@dai-edge1:~/Modem-Install/ModemManager-1.14.2$ ModemManager
> ModemManager[86544]: <info>  ModemManager (version 1.14.2) starting in system 
> bus...
> ModemManager[86544]: <warn>  could not acquire the 
> 'org.freedesktop.ModemManager1' service name
> ModemManager[86544]: <info>  ModemManager is shut down
>

Are you running this without sudo for some reason?
When the ModemManager process cannot acquire the service name it's
because either there is already another ModemManager process running,
or otherwise because you're not running it with enough privileges (it
must be run as root).

> edge1@dai-edge1:~/Modem-Install/ModemManager-1.14.2$ sudo mmcli -L
> error: couldn't find the ModemManager process in the bus
>

That would mean there is no ModemManager process owning the service
well-known name.

> edge1@dai-edge1:~/Modem-Install/ModemManager-1.14.2$ ModemManager --debug
> ModemManager[86553]: <info>  [1600967775.123602] ModemManager (version 
> 1.14.2) starting in system bus...
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.123933] [sleep-monitor] singleton 
> created
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.124881] bus acquired, creating 
> manager...
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.124974] [auth-provider] singleton 
> created
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.125303] [filter] created
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.125315] [filter]   explicit 
> whitelist:         yes
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.125318] [filter]   explicit 
> blacklist:         yes
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.125322] [filter]   plugin whitelist: 
>           yes
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.125340] [filter]   virtual devices 
> forbidden:  yes
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.125344] [filter]   net devices 
> allowed:        yes
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.125347] [filter]   cdc-wdm devices 
> allowed:    yes
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.125350] [filter]   tty devices:
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.125353] [filter]       blacklist 
> applied:        no
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.125356] [filter]       manual scan 
> only applied: no
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.125360] [filter]       platform 
> driver check:    yes
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.125363] [filter]       driver check: 
>             yes
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.125366] [filter]       cdc-acm 
> interface check:  yes
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.125369] [filter]       with net 
> check:           yes
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.125372] [filter]       default:      
>             forbidden
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.125425] [plugin-manager] looking for 
> plugins in '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ModemManager'
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.125618] [plugin-manager] loaded 
> shared 'Novatel' utils from 
> '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ModemManager/libmm-shared-novatel.so'
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.125718] [plugin-manager] loaded 
> shared 'Icera' utils from 
> '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ModemManager/libmm-shared-icera.so'
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.125761] [plugin-manager] loaded 
> shared 'Option' utils from 
> '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ModemManager/libmm-shared-option.so'
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.125839] [plugin-manager] loaded 
> shared 'Sierra' utils from 
> '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ModemManager/libmm-shared-sierra.so'
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.125881] [plugin-manager] loaded 
> shared 'Foxconn' utils from 
> '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ModemManager/libmm-shared-foxconn.so'
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.125959] [plugin-manager] loaded 
> shared 'Xmm' utils from 
> '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ModemManager/libmm-shared-xmm.so'
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.126031] [plugin-manager] loaded 
> shared 'Telit' utils from 
> '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ModemManager/libmm-shared-telit.so'
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.126135] [plugin-manager] loaded 
> plugin 'wavecom' from 
> '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ModemManager/libmm-plugin-wavecom.so'
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.126149] [filter] registered plugin 
> whitelist vendor id: 114f
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.126200] [plugin-manager] loaded 
> plugin 'anydata' from 
> '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ModemManager/libmm-plugin-anydata.so'
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.126209] [filter] registered plugin 
> whitelist vendor id: 16d5
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.126287] [plugin-manager] loaded 
> plugin 'altair-lte' from 
> '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ModemManager/libmm-plugin-altair-lte.so'
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.126297] [filter] registered plugin 
> whitelist product id: 216f:0047
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.126343] [plugin-manager] loaded 
> plugin 'novatel' from 
> '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ModemManager/libmm-plugin-novatel.so'
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.126352] [filter] registered plugin 
> whitelist vendor id: 1410
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.126437] [plugin-manager] loaded 
> plugin 'u-blox' from 
> '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ModemManager/libmm-plugin-ublox.so'
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.126445] [filter] registered plugin 
> whitelist vendor id: 1546
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.126490] [plugin-manager] loaded 
> plugin 'motorola' from 
> '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ModemManager/libmm-plugin-motorola.so'
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.126503] [filter] registered plugin 
> whitelist product id: 22b8:3802
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.126506] [filter] registered plugin 
> whitelist product id: 22b8:4902
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.126548] [plugin-manager] loaded 
> plugin 'haier' from 
> '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ModemManager/libmm-plugin-haier.so'
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.126556] [filter] registered plugin 
> whitelist vendor id: 201e
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.126606] [plugin-manager] loaded 
> plugin 'nokia' from 
> '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ModemManager/libmm-plugin-nokia.so'
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.126615] [filter] registered plugin 
> whitelist vendor id: 0421
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.126657] [plugin-manager] loaded 
> plugin 'foxconn' from 
> '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ModemManager/libmm-plugin-foxconn.so'
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.126666] [filter] registered plugin 
> whitelist vendor id: 0489
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.126707] [plugin-manager] loaded 
> plugin 'sierra' from 
> '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ModemManager/libmm-plugin-sierra.so'
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.126715] [filter] registered plugin 
> whitelist vendor id: 1199
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.126768] [plugin-manager] loaded 
> plugin 'iridium' from 
> '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ModemManager/libmm-plugin-iridium.so'
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.126777] [filter] registered plugin 
> whitelist vendor id: 1edd
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.126826] [plugin-manager] loaded 
> plugin 'via' from '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ModemManager/libmm-plugin-via.so'
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.126874] [plugin-manager] loaded 
> plugin 'option' from 
> '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ModemManager/libmm-plugin-option.so'
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.126883] [filter] registered plugin 
> whitelist vendor id: 0af0
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.126887] [filter] registered plugin 
> whitelist vendor id: 1931
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.126927] [plugin-manager] loaded 
> plugin 'tp-link' from 
> '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ModemManager/libmm-plugin-tplink.so'
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.126934] [filter] registered plugin 
> whitelist vendor id: 2357
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.126979] [plugin-manager] loaded 
> plugin 'fibocom' from 
> '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ModemManager/libmm-plugin-fibocom.so'
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.126988] [filter] registered plugin 
> whitelist vendor id: 2cb7
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.127030] [plugin-manager] loaded 
> plugin 'generic' from 
> '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ModemManager/libmm-plugin-generic.so'
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.127076] [plugin-manager] loaded 
> plugin 'broadmobi' from 
> '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ModemManager/libmm-plugin-broadmobi.so'
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.127084] [filter] registered plugin 
> whitelist vendor id: 2020
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.127172] [plugin-manager] loaded 
> plugin 'cinterion' from 
> '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ModemManager/libmm-plugin-cinterion.so'
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.127182] [filter] registered plugin 
> whitelist vendor id: 1e2d
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.127186] [filter] registered plugin 
> whitelist vendor id: 0681
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.127250] [plugin-manager] loaded 
> plugin 'linktop' from 
> '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ModemManager/libmm-plugin-linktop.so'
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.127259] [filter] registered plugin 
> whitelist vendor id: 230d
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.127354] [plugin-manager] loaded 
> plugin 'huawei' from 
> '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ModemManager/libmm-plugin-huawei.so'
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.127363] [filter] registered plugin 
> whitelist vendor id: 12d1
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.127426] [plugin-manager] loaded 
> plugin 'option-hso' from 
> '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ModemManager/libmm-plugin-option-hso.so'
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.127512] [plugin-manager] loaded 
> plugin 'ericsson-mbm' from 
> '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ModemManager/libmm-plugin-ericsson-mbm.so'
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.127523] [filter] registered plugin 
> whitelist tag: ID_MM_ERICSSON_MBM
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.127577] [plugin-manager] loaded 
> plugin 'sierra-legacy' from 
> '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ModemManager/libmm-plugin-sierra-legacy.so'
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.127634] [plugin-manager] loaded 
> plugin 'longcheer' from 
> '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ModemManager/libmm-plugin-longcheer.so'
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.127643] [filter] registered plugin 
> whitelist tag: ID_MM_LONGCHEER_TAGGED
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.127648] [filter] registered plugin 
> whitelist vendor id: 1c9e
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.127651] [filter] registered plugin 
> whitelist vendor id: 1bbb
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.127722] [plugin-manager] loaded 
> plugin 'thuraya' from 
> '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ModemManager/libmm-plugin-thuraya.so'
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.127731] [filter] registered plugin 
> whitelist vendor id: 1a26
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.127804] [plugin-manager] loaded 
> plugin 'simtech' from 
> '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ModemManager/libmm-plugin-simtech.so'
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.127813] [filter] registered plugin 
> whitelist vendor id: 1e0e
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.127871] [plugin-manager] loaded 
> plugin 'x22x' from 
> '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ModemManager/libmm-plugin-x22x.so'
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.127884] [filter] registered plugin 
> whitelist tag: ID_MM_X22X_TAGGED
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.127888] [filter] registered plugin 
> whitelist vendor id: 0b3c
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.127932] [plugin-manager] loaded 
> plugin 'd-link' from 
> '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ModemManager/libmm-plugin-dlink.so'
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.127939] [filter] registered plugin 
> whitelist vendor id: 2001
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.127997] [plugin-manager] loaded 
> plugin 'novatel-lte' from 
> '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ModemManager/libmm-plugin-novatel-lte.so'
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.128007] [filter] registered plugin 
> whitelist product id: 1410:9010
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.128051] [plugin-manager] loaded 
> plugin 'samsumg' from 
> '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ModemManager/libmm-plugin-samsung.so'
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.128059] [filter] registered plugin 
> whitelist product id: 04e8:6872
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.128063] [filter] registered plugin 
> whitelist product id: 04e8:6906
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.128109] [plugin-manager] loaded 
> plugin 'telit' from 
> '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ModemManager/libmm-plugin-telit.so'
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.128117] [filter] registered plugin 
> whitelist vendor id: 1bc7
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.128167] [plugin-manager] loaded 
> plugin 'quectel' from 
> '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ModemManager/libmm-plugin-quectel.so'
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.128177] [filter] registered plugin 
> whitelist vendor id: 2c7c
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.128235] [plugin-manager] loaded 
> plugin 'dell' from 
> '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ModemManager/libmm-plugin-dell.so'
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.128244] [filter] registered plugin 
> whitelist vendor id: 413c
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.128302] [plugin-manager] loaded 
> plugin 'zte' from '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ModemManager/libmm-plugin-zte.so'
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.128312] [filter] registered plugin 
> whitelist vendor id: 19d2
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.128365] [plugin-manager] loaded 
> plugin 'mtk' from '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ModemManager/libmm-plugin-mtk.so'
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.128373] [filter] registered plugin 
> whitelist tag: ID_MM_MTK_TAGGED
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.128425] [plugin-manager] loaded 
> plugin 'pantech' from 
> '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ModemManager/libmm-plugin-pantech.so'
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.128437] [filter] registered plugin 
> whitelist vendor id: 106c
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.128482] [plugin-manager] loaded 
> plugin 'nokia-icera' from 
> '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ModemManager/libmm-plugin-nokia-icera.so'
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.128490] [plugin-manager] 
> successfully loaded 37 plugins
> ModemManager[86553]: <warn>  [1600967775.128726] could not acquire the 
> 'org.freedesktop.ModemManager1' service name

Same error as above, are you not running as root?

> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.128745] [base-manager] stopping 
> connection in object manager server
> ModemManager[86553]: <info>  [1600967775.129013] ModemManager is shut down
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.129042] [sleep-monitor] singleton 
> disposed
> ModemManager[86553]: <debug> [1600967775.129053] [auth-provider] singleton 
> disposed
> edge1@dai-edge1:~/Modem-Install/ModemManager-1.14.2$ lsusb
> Bus 002 Device 002: ID 2c7c:0800 Quectel Wireless Solutions Co., Ltd. 
> RM500Q-GL
> Bus 002 Device 003: ID 2c7c:0800 Quectel Wireless Solutions Co., Ltd. 
> RG500Q-EA
>

-- 
Aleksander
https://aleksander.es
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