Knetworkmanager consolekit error [solved]

[keba]

Hi,

I know, knetworkmanager (which was supposed to get released with KDE SC 4.4) is masked. I tried it anyway and (of course) I ran into an error. Now this is strange, because I have been using an older (svn) version from kde-testing on another computer and it worked perfectly. Anyway, I'd be glad to know how I can get it to work... Here is what I did:

1) I unmasked knetworkmanager

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echo "kde-misc/knetworkmanager" >> /etc/portage/package.unmask

2) I emerged it, no errors

3) I logged into KDE SC 4.4 and issued "knetworkmanager" in konsole, this is what I got
A window telling me:

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KNetworkManager cannot start because the installation is misconfigured. System DBus policy does not
allow it to provide user settings; contact your system administrator or distribution.
KNetworkManager will not start automatically in future.

And the console output:

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knetworkmanager(5690)/kdeui (Wallet) KWalletDLaucher::getInterface: The kwalletd service has been registered
knetworkmanager(5690)/Network Management (NetworkManager backend) NMDBusSettingsService::NMDBusSettingsService: Unable to register service QDBus error("org.freedesktop.Error.AccessDenied", "Connection ":1.74" is not allowed to own the service "org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings" due to security policies in the configuration file")

[Rexilion]

Is your user part of the plugdev group? check with the 'id' command. Furthermore, why not use the gnome nm-applet that is known to work better with NetworkManager?

[keba]

Yes, my user is part of the plugdev group... And I'm not using nm-applet because I'm using kde and I prefer a native program/applet, especially since it worked perfectly fine before (version from kde-testing) and it was released with kde sc 4.4 (except on Gentoo (?)). Installing nm-applet would mean that I'd have to install a lot of gnome stuff and I'm not even sure how well it would work with kde... So that's not really a solution.

[Ken69267]

I'm having the same problem with knetworkmanager myself (and nm-applet aswell for what its worth). The only temporary solution I've had is to run `ck-launch-session` in a terminal and then `knetworkmanager` to get it to start.

This isn't really ideal but it can get it to launch. Hoping someone knows how to get it to work automagically.

[Rexilion]

If you run a custom session (like .xinitrc) you need to put ck-launch-session in front of your session manager, like so:

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ck-launch-session startxfce4

[BenderBendingRodriguez]

Try to update networkmanager to version 8.0

knetworkmanager was built against that version.

Still, solid will show you as if you were using 7.0

I am running knetworkmanager successfully without any problems at all. The only problem that sometimes appears is when the small window with options (when you right click it stays on the window).

[keba]

I built knetworkmanager with the consolekit useflag. Re-emerging without it solved my problem. I'm having quite some other problems with consolekit though: it doesn't let me mount my usb-memory-sticks and stuff like that. consolekit was somhow pulled in automatically, so now I need a way to either configure it the right way or get rid of it...

[keba]

I re-emerged hal without neither policykit nor consolekit useflags, now everything works fine.

BTW, knetworkmanager is working fine and it's a great app. Don't hesitate to install it just because it's masked.