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

[Michael Biebl]

On 17.05.2012 18:05, Jameson Graef Rollins wrote:
> On Wed, May 16 2012, Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:

> 
>>> network-manager neither Depends or Recommends consolekit.  If consolekit
>>> is required to use network-manager then the network-manager package is
>>> currently broken.
>>
>> network-manager has a Recommends on policykit (which will pull consolekit).
> 
> I have both the policykit and consolekit daemons running and that wasn't
> enough for network-manager.  It apparently requires a specific
> configuration or state of interaction between these daemons that is
> again not ever described.  Since network-manager requires very specific
> configurations of these other tools it really needs to have clearer
> documentation of what those configurations are, and how to achieve them.
> I still have no idea what they are.
> 
>>> I am using XDM and am plenty happy with it.  Suggesting that I use a
>>> different login manager is not a solution to this problem.  Again, if
>>> there are unmet dependencies for this package, then the package is
>>> broken.
>>
>> Well, XDM does not have proper ConsoleKit integration.
> 
> If this is true, then again, there is a severe failure in
> network-managers documentation.

This is not a network-manager problem per se.
Having a properly setup ConsoleKit/PolicyKit stack is something your
desktop environment should provide as a *lot* of tools are nowadays
depending on that.

That's the problem of using such an exotic configuration like yours. You
basically need to do that all by hand.

If a ConsoleKit session is properly registered and ck-list-sessions
correctly marks your session as active and local, the next step is to
test if you have PolicyKit authentication agent running in your desktop
session. KDE and GNOME have one builtin.
You properly need to start
/usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 manually.
To test this, run "pkexec aptitude", which should pop up an
authentication dialog.



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