[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#758557: network-manager: not authorized to control networking

[arne anka]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.9.10.0-1.1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

one of the last updates drastically limited network-manager's usability -- whenever i try to up or down a connection via the kde applet, all i get is "not authorized to control networking" (in /var/log/syslog and since the latest update today at least also a popup).
looks like #657279 -- but further research indicated that it ay be related to systemd (and maybe KDM, there are reports, the GDM users do not experience such issues).
the users trying to access nm are in the groups

dialout cdrom floppy audio video plugdev netdev powerdev scanner nvram vboxusers bluetooth pulse-access pulse-rt fuse subversion

and unless there's yet another networking related group, this should cover it.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.14-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113+nmu3
ii  dbus                   1.8.6-1
ii  init-system-helpers    1.20
ii  isc-dhcp-client        4.3.1-1
ii  libc6                  2.19-9
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.8.6-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.102-1
ii  libgcrypt11            1.5.4-2
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.40.0-4
ii  libgnutls-deb0-28      3.2.16-1
ii  libgudev-1.0-0         208-7
ii  libmm-glib0            1.2.0-1
ii  libndp0                1.4-1
ii  libnewt0.52            0.52.17-1
ii  libnl-3-200            3.2.24-2
ii  libnl-genl-3-200       3.2.24-2
ii  libnl-route-3-200      3.2.24-2
ii  libnm-glib4            0.9.10.0-1.1
ii  libnm-util2            0.9.10.0-1.1
ii  libpam-systemd         208-7
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.110-2
ii  libreadline6           6.3-8
ii  libsoup2.4-1           2.46.0-2
ii  libsystemd-daemon0     208-7
ii  libsystemd-login0      208-7
ii  libuuid1               2.20.1-5.8
ii  lsb-base               4.1+Debian13
ii  policykit-1            0.110-2
ii  udev                   208-7
ii  wpasupplicant          1.1-1

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
pn  crda          <none>
pn  dnsmasq-base  <none>
ii  iptables      1.4.21-2
ii  modemmanager  1.2.0-1
ii  ppp           2.4.6-2

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

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf changed:
[main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile
no-auto-default=54:EE:75:0F:9F:A6,
[ifupdown]
managed=false

/etc/init.d/network-manager changed:
echo "nm" >> /tmp/nm.txt
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DESC="network connection manager"
NAME="NetworkManager"
DAEMON=/usr/sbin/$NAME
PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME/$NAME.pid
SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/network-manager
test -x $DAEMON || exit 0
.. /lib/lsb/init-functions
test -f /etc/default/NetworkManager && . /etc/default/NetworkManager
d_start() {
	start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE \
		--exec $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_OPTS
}
d_stop() {
	start-stop-daemon --stop --retry 15 --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON
}
case "$1" in
  start)
	echo "start" >> /tmp/nm.txt
	log_daemon_msg "Starting $DESC" "$NAME"
	d_start
	case "$?" in
		0) log_end_msg 0; echo "0" >> /tmp/nm.txt ;;
		1) log_progress_msg "already started"
		   log_end_msg 0 ; echo "1" >> /tmp/nm.txt;;
		*) log_end_msg 1 ; echo "*" >> /tmp/nm.txt;;
	esac
	;;
  stop)
	echo "stop" >> /tmp/nm.txt
	log_daemon_msg "Stopping $DESC" "$NAME"
	d_stop
	case "$?" in
		0) log_end_msg 0 ;;
		1) log_progress_msg "already stopped"
		   log_end_msg 0 ;;
		*) log_end_msg 1 ;;
	esac
	;;
  restart|force-reload)
	echo "restart" >> /tmp/nm.txt
	$0 stop
	$0 start
	;;
  status)
	status_of_proc -p $PIDFILE $DAEMON $NAME && exit 0 || exit $?
	;;
  *)
	echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|restart|force-reload|status}" >&2
	exit 1
	;;
esac
exit 0


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