[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#652961: network-manager: cannot save network settings

[Leonardo Canducci]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.9.2.0-1
Severity: normal

I'm running gnome 3.2 in sid and NM 0.9.2.

I can't save network settings so I'm stuck with default options (DHCP).
Whenever I try to save settings a window prompting for authentication comes up
and disappears immediately before I can type anything. That window says
something like system policy prevents changing settings for all users. I get
the same behaviour with a new user.

ps aux tells me polkitd is running. I don't see polkit-gnome-authentication-
agent-1 (if relevant) but if invoked in the terminal I get:

** (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:9528): WARNING **: Unable to register
authentication agent: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: An
authentication agent already exists for the given subject
Cannot register authentication agent:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: An authentication agent
already exists for the given subject

Authentication works (i.e. when I mount partitions). /etc/network/interfaces is
ok (lo only).

What's wrong?

Thanks!
Leonardo



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.utf8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113
ii  dbus                   1.4.16-1
ii  isc-dhcp-client        4.1.1-P1-17
ii  libc6                  2.13-23
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.4.16-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.98-1
ii  libgcrypt11            1.5.0-3
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.30.2-4
ii  libgnutls26            2.12.14-5
ii  libgudev-1.0-0         175-3
ii  libnl1                 1.1-7
ii  libnm-glib4            0.9.2.0-1
ii  libnm-util2            0.9.2.0-1
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.103-1
ii  libuuid1               2.20.1-1
ii  lsb-base               3.2-28
ii  udev                   175-3
ii  wpasupplicant          0.7.3-5

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  dnsmasq-base  2.59-4
ii  iptables      1.4.12-1
ii  modemmanager  0.5-1
ii  policykit-1   0.103-1
ii  ppp           2.4.5-5

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
pn  avahi-autoipd  <none>

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