[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#767888: firewall-applet: Cannot change zone of a connection

[Martin Brandtner]

The problem still exists.

Workaround: start the applet as root user from the command line:
firewall-config

Regards, Martin

On Mon, 03 Nov 2014 11:07:44 +0100 Ralf Jung <post at ralfj.de> wrote:

> Package: firewall-applet

> Version: 0.3.12-1

> Severity: normal

>

> Dear Maintainer,

>

> I'd like to change the zone of an active connection temporarily, i.e.,
without

> changing the zone that will be associated to the connection per default.

>

> I select "Options" - "Change zones of connections...", and then "DHCP"
which

> is the currently active connection. I select "public" (currently, the zone

> for that connection is "home") and click Ok. Nothing happens, i.e., the
small

> window to change the zone remains opened and the zone does not change.

>

> On the console, I get

> Traceback (most recent call last):

>   File "/usr/bin/firewall-config", line 1007, in
change_zone_connection_editor

>     editor.run()

>   File "/usr/bin/firewall-config", line 5298, in run

>     settings = connection_obj.GetSettings()

>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 70, in
__call__

>     return self._proxy_method(*args, **keywords)

>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/slip/dbus/proxies.py", line 51,
in __call__

>     return dbus.proxies._ProxyMethod.__call__(self, *args, **kwargs)

>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 145, in
__call__

>     **keywords)

>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 651,
in call_blocking

>     message, timeout)

> dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied:
Rejected send message, 7 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.63"
(uid=1000 pid=28011 comm="/usr/bin/python -Es /usr/bin/firewall-config ")
interface="(unset)" member="GetSettings" error name="(unset)"
requested_reply="0" destination=":1.14" (uid=0 pid=1039
comm="/usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon ")

>

> Kind regards

> Ralf

>

> -- System Information:

> Debian Release: jessie/sid

>   APT prefers testing

>   APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable')

> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

> Foreign Architectures: i386

>

> Kernel: Linux 3.17.0+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores)

> Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

>

> Versions of packages firewall-applet depends on:

> ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.22.0-1

> ii  firewalld                                    0.3.12-1

> ii  gir1.2-glib-2.0                              1.42.0-2.2

> ii  gir1.2-gtk-3.0                               3.14.4-1

> ii  gir1.2-networkmanager-1.0                    0.9.10.0-3

> ii  gir1.2-notify-0.7                            0.7.6-2

> ii  policykit-1                                  0.105-7

> ii  python-dbus                                  1.2.0-2+b3

> ii  python-gi                                    3.14.0-1

> ii  python-slip-dbus                             0.6.0-2

> pn  python:any                                   <none>

>

> firewall-applet recommends no packages.

>

> firewall-applet suggests no packages.
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