[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#804044: network-manager-gnome: nm-connection-editor cannot edit or delete connections

[Christoph Groth]

Package: network-manager-gnome
Version: 1.0.6-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

When running nm-connection-editor (that can be also launched by
right-clicking on the nm-applet icon and choosing "Edit Connections"),
I am unable to edit or delete existing connections (the buttons are
grayed out).  I am running XFCE.  My user does belong to the netdev
group. The configuration of NetworkManager is pristine.

Workaround: I found that the problem is solved by editing
/var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pkla
such that it reads:

[Adding or changing system-wide NetworkManager connections]
Identity=unix-group:netdev;unix-group:sudo
Action=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.system
ResultAny=yes
ResultInactive=yes
ResultActive=yes

Specifically, I had to change ResultInactive to yes.  (I checked that
changing only ResultAny to yes is not sufficient.)

I have no clue about policykit, so I cannot say whether this is a
problem in network-manager-gnome or in some other package.  Please
reassign this bug as necessary.

Thanks,
Christoph

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome depends on:
ii  dbus-x11                                     1.10.2-1
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.24.0-2
ii  gconf-service                                3.2.6-3
ii  gnome-icon-theme                             3.12.0-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.18.0-1
ii  libc6                                        2.19-22
ii  libcairo2                                    1.14.2-2
ii  libdbus-1-3                                  1.10.2-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2                             0.102-1
ii  libgconf-2-4                                 3.2.6-3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.32.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.46.1-1
ii  libgnome-keyring0                            3.12.0-1+b1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.18.2-1
ii  libmm-glib0                                  1.4.12-1
ii  libnm-glib-vpn1                              1.0.6-1
ii  libnm-glib4                                  1.0.6-1
ii  libnm-gtk0                                   1.0.6-2
ii  libnm-util2                                  1.0.6-1
ii  libnotify4                                   0.7.6-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.38.1-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                          1.38.1-1
ii  libsecret-1-0                                0.18.3-1
ii  network-manager                              1.0.6-1
ii  policykit-1-gnome                            0.105-2

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome recommends:
ii  gnome-keyring                        3.18.2-1
ii  iso-codes                            3.62-1
pn  mobile-broadband-provider-info       <none>
ii  notification-daemon                  3.18.1-1
ii  xfce4-notifyd [notification-daemon]  0.2.4-3+b1

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome suggests:
pn  network-manager-openconnect-gnome  <none>
pn  network-manager-openvpn-gnome      <none>
pn  network-manager-pptp-gnome         <none>
pn  network-manager-vpnc-gnome         <none>

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