[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#613415: Bug#613415: network-manager-gnome: Can't connect to a wireless network and greyed out interface

[Michael Biebl]

Am 14.02.2011 18:42, schrieb Jonathan Ballet:
> Package: network-manager-gnome
> Version: 0.8.2-3
> Severity: important
> 
> Since I updated from 0.8.1 to 0.8.2, I can't use anymore the nm-applet
> application to connect to a wireless network. The symptoms are:
> 
> * the Wired and Wireless devices are shown as "disconnected", although
>   there are wireless networks that show up;
> 
> * if I try to connect to a wireless network, nothing happens. On the
>   console, I have the following output:
> 
>     ** (nm-applet:2410): WARNING **: <WARN>  activate_connection_cb():
>     Connection activation failed: No user settings service available
> 
> * I can't enable or disable "Networking" or "Wireless" when I right
>   click on the tray icon, because the entries are greyed out;
> 
> * I can edit the settings of the Wireless connections I saved, but I
>   can't set the flag "Available for all users", because it is greyed
>   out.
> 
> Despite all of this, the wireless system seems to be OK, since I can
> connect using wpa_supplicant alone.
> 
> Also, I tried to downgrade to NetworkManager 0.8.1-6, which I was using
> previously, and it worked as expected.
> 
> 
> I provide, attached to this email, the output of the NetworkManager
> daemon and nm-applet for the faulty version:
> 
> * the daemon log doesn't show anything when I tried to connect to a
>   Wireless network;
> 
> * the nm-applet log shows what's happenning when I try to connect and
>   when I try to edit a connection.

Have you restarted both network-manager and nm-applet after upgrading to 0.8.2?

Or is network-manager 0.8.2 running in combination with a 0.8.1 nm-applet.

Then your issue might be a duplicate of #612291	


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