[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#525066: Bug#525066: network-manager: Upgrade from 0.7.0-99 to 0.7.0-100 broke mobile broadband using HUAWEI E169G (E620)

[Tim Wootton]

I've done some further testing:

It _will_ work some of the time, typically if I log out of kde it'll work the first time I try to connect when I log back in, except it won't work on the first login after the machine is booted, I have to boot/login/logout/login again before it will work.

I've spotted the following in the auth log, which I suspect is related:

Apr 30 06:37:42 marvin dbus-daemon: Rejected send message, 7 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.71" (uid=0 pid=9612 comm="/usr/sbin/pppd nodetach lock nodefaultroute ttyUSB") interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.PPP" member="SetState" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" (uid=0 pid=9590 comm="/usr/sbin/NetworkManager "))

but if it's dbus permissions, why would they change part way through a session?

Here's the Network Manager dbus config file (unchanged from default afaik):
<!DOCTYPE busconfig PUBLIC
 "-//freedesktop//DTD D-BUS Bus Configuration 1.0//EN"
 "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/dbus/1.0/busconfig.dtd">
<busconfig>
        <policy user="root">
                <allow own="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"/>
                <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"/>

                <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"
                      send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.PPP"/>
        </policy>
        <policy group="netdev">
                <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"/>

                <deny send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"
                      send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.PPP"/>
        </policy>
        <policy at_console="true">
                <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"/>

                <deny send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"
                      send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.PPP"/>
        </policy>
        <policy context="default">
                <deny own="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"/>
                <deny send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"/>

                <deny send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"
                      send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.PPP"/>
        </policy>

        <limit name="max_replies_per_connection">512</limit>
</busconfig>