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wswartzendruber
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 Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 8:14 am Post subject: nm-applet Can't Edit Connections |
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I'm running nm-applet (Gtk 3.2) under Xfce4. The buttons for editing connections are grayed out. When attempting to create a new connection, all widgets in that window are disabled.
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smartass
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| Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 11:51 am Post subject: |
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| sounds like policy kit permission problems. Adding yourself to the networkmanager group could work IIRC, check the respective polkit files |
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ppurka
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| Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 1:05 pm Post subject: |
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Execute this and then start nm-connection-editor (this is the same application started by edit connections from nm-applet):
| Code: | | /usr/libexec/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 |
If you don't have this file, then you need to install polkit-gnome. If xfce can autostart applications from /etc/xdg/autostart, then make sure it autostarts /etc/xdg/autostart/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1.desktop
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wswartzendruber
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| Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Code: | wswartzendruber@thinkpad:~ $ /usr/libexec/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
** (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:24387): WARNING **: Unable to register authentication agent: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: An authentication agent already exists for the given subject
Cannot register authentication agent: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: An authentication agent already exists for the given subject |
| Code: | wswartzendruber@thinkpad:~ $ ps aux | grep polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
1000 15432 0.0 0.1 204036 6300 tty1 Sl 00:10 0:00 /usr/libexec/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
1000 24398 0.0 0.0 8596 1048 pts/0 R+ 12:32 0:00 grep --colour=auto polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 |
Restarting nm-applet to ensure it's started after polkit-gnome-... doesn't work either. |
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ppurka
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| Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2012 2:23 am Post subject: |
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Wow. This is new. It looks like the polkit agent is already running. Must be some new evilness in polkit. Only advice I can give is: ensure that consolekit and polkit are properly set up. And then wish that the polkit gods are feeling benevolent today.
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