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

[Michael Biebl]

Am 18.08.2014 21:38, schrieb 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.

How do you start your X session?

What's the output of
loginctl show-session $XDG_SESSION_ID


If that doesn't list an active logind session, you've found your problem.


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