[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#555624: Bug#555624: network-manager: pppd connections get killed (dbus communication problem)

[Michael Biebl]

Christoph Haas wrote:
> Package: network-manager
> Version: 0.7.1-2
> Severity: normal


Hi Christoph,

thanks for the bug report.

> After I create a PPP connection (UMTS here) the connection gets killed
> approximately 12 seconds after being established. The syslog showed:
> 
> NetworkManager: <WARN>  pppd_timed_out(): Looks like pppd didn't initialize our dbus module
> 
> Apparently dbus couldn't talk to the Network Manager somehow. I found
> a workaround in Ubuntu's bug report #371281 (reply #3) by removing
> the "deny" sections from /etc/dbus-1/system.d/NetworkManager.conf.
> 

Were you logged in as root (i.e. is there a file /var/run/console/root) when you
get this failure?
If so, does it make a difference if you logout as root?

Cheers,
Michael




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