Dan Williams skrev: > On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 22:34 +0100, Bjørge Solli wrote: > >> See I was a bit unclear. NM may take the network down as long as it >> takes it up again. I have network login and if no network is available >> noone can log in. >> >> The strange thing is that I cannot even log in as root (not in gdm nor >> in text console), I had to reboot into runlevel 1 to do a chkconfig >> NetworkManager off! I really don't understand why root was denied as >> network is not needed for that. >> > > Until the system settings stuff is available (which is what I'm working > on right now) for Fedora 8 and rawhide, somebody must log so that the > applet is available to provide NetworkManager with the connections that > NM is allowed to activate. Essentially, something must provide the > org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSettings D-Bus service, and the only thing > that currently does that is nm-applet or knetworkmanager, which only run > when somebody logs in. > Ok. Any timeline for the settings stuff? Untill you have that ready I guess using ldap and network home disk (cifs) won't work after starting NM.
Do you also have an idea as to why starting NM prevents root from logging in? Bjørge - while trying to set up a centrally managed linux-laptop system for University of Bergen, Norway. _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
