[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#638723: network-manager: uses group "netdev" in D-Bus policy files, but does not create the group

[Sascha Silbe]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.8.4.0-2
Severity: normal


On a brand new system installed using debootstrap, the following error
occurs during installation of NetworkManager:

Setting up dbus (1.4.14-1) ...
Starting system message bus: dbusUnknown group "netdev" in message bus configuration file
..

These are the offending files:

root at mimosa:/etc# git grep netdev -- dbus-1
dbus-1/system.d/NetworkManager.conf:        <policy group="netdev">
dbus-1/system.d/wpa_supplicant.conf:        <policy group="netdev">
root at mimosa:/etc#


I'm not quite sure who should create the group (maybe both wpasupplicant
and network-manager), so I'm filing this against network-manager (only).
Feel free to reassign or duplicate the bug.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash