[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#516121: Bug#516121: network-manager-gnome: Is unconditionally started for gnome session, complains every 5 seconds about missing privileges

[Michael Biebl]

Daniel Skorka schrieb:
> Package: network-manager-gnome
> Version: 0.6.6-4
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> It appears that /etc/xdg/autostart/nm-applet.desktop starts for my gnome-session. As I am just a 
> normal user,
> 
> $ id daniel
> uid=1001(daniel) gid=1001(daniel) groups=24(cdrom),29(audio),1001(daniel)
> 
> this doesn't have enough privileges and complains (in ~/.xsession-errors):
> ---snip---
> ** (nm-applet:5026): WARNING **: <WARN>  nma_dbus_init(): could not acquire its service.  
> dbus_bus_acquire_service() says: 'Connection ":1.33" is not allowed to own the service 
> "org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerInfo" due to security policies in the configuration file'
> ---snip---
> 
> *every 5 seconds*. One warning would be plenty, followed by an exit of nm-applet.
> 

What happens if you restart dbus and that takes longer than 5 seconds?
What if you grant the permissions after the user has already logged in?

Checking once and then immediately exiting would imho less foolprof and
userfriendly.

So you trade robustness with a little bit of inconvenience (log messages
in .xsession-errors).

If you want to disable nm-applet from starting, you can simply do so via
the gnome-session-properties manager.

Michael

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