[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#673136: Bug#673136: network-manager-gnome: nm-connection-editor shows no connections and everything is greyed out (can't edit anything)

[Jameson Graef Rollins]

On Wed, May 16 2012, Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
> You need a active ConsoleKit session, ie. please make sure you have
> consolekit and policykit installed (the latter is a recommends of
> network-manager).
> Then use a login manager, like gdm3, kdm or lightdm, which set's up a
> ConsoleKit session properly.
>
> A active ConsoleKit session is required by NetworkManager to determine
> if you are allowed to control the network settings or not.

I have consolekit, policykit-1, and policykit-1-gnome all already
installed.  I guess you wanted me to run ck-list-sesssions, not
ck-list-session:

servo:~ 0$ ck-list-sessions
Session12:
	unix-user = '1000'
	realname = ''
	seat = 'Seat2'
	session-type = ''
	active = FALSE
	x11-display = ':0'
	x11-display-device = '/dev/tty7'
	display-device = ''
	remote-host-name = ''
	is-local = FALSE
	on-since = '2012-05-16T10:36:53.044308Z'
	login-session-id = '4294967295'
servo:~ 0$ 

In any event, as far as I understand things according to the
documentation included with network-manager, the point of consolekit is
to ensure that the user is a member of netdev.  That can either be
managed by consolekit, or the user can be added to that group manually.
As I am already a member of netdev, even without consolekit's help, I
don't see how this is the issue:

servo:~ 0$ groups
jrollins adm dialout cdrom floppy sudo audio dip video plugdev netdev bluetooth lpadmin fuse kvm
servo:~ 0$ getent group | grep netdev
netdev:x:109:jrollins
servo:~ 0$ 

If there is something else that consolekit is supposed to be doing the
documentation makes no mention of it.

jamie.
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