[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#960943: network-manager-gnome: Enable networking / enable wifi greyed out

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

Package: network-manager-gnome
Version: 1.16.0-1
Severity: normal

Hi,
I'm using network-manager-gnome (nm-applet) on two Xfce systems based on sid.
On both of them, since recently (I'm unable to identify a specific update but
maybe 1.16.0-1) the enable/disable options for networking and wireless are
greyed out in the nm-applet systray icon.

I've checked that I'm authorized to do those actions in network-manager:

pkaction --verbose --action-id org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-network
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-network:
  description:       Enable or disable system networking
  message:           System policy prevents enabling or disabling system networking
  vendor:            NetworkManager
  vendor_url:        http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager
  icon:              nm-icon
  implicit any:      no
  implicit inactive: no
  implicit active:   yes

I've also tested with nmcli and it does work. So there's something specific to nm-applet.

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (450, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome depends on:
ii  dbus-user-session [default-dbus-session-bus]  1.12.16-2
ii  dbus-x11 [dbus-session-bus]                   1.12.16-2
ii  libatk1.0-0                                   2.36.0-2
ii  libayatana-appindicator3-1                    0.5.4-2
ii  libc6                                         2.30-8
ii  libcairo2                                     1.16.0-4
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                            2.40.0+dfsg-4
ii  libglib2.0-0                                  2.64.2-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                    3.24.20-1
ii  libjansson4                                   2.12-1
ii  libmm-glib0                                   1.12.8-1.1
ii  libnm0                                        1.24.0-1
ii  libnma0                                       1.8.28-2
ii  libnotify4                                    0.7.9-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0                                1.44.7-4
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                           1.44.7-4
ii  libsecret-1-0                                 0.20.3-1
ii  libselinux1                                   3.0-1+b3
ii  network-manager                               1.24.0-1
ii  policykit-1-gnome [polkit-1-auth-agent]       0.105-7

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome recommends:
ii  gnome-keyring                        3.36.0-1
ii  iso-codes                            4.4-1
pn  mobile-broadband-provider-info       <none>
ii  xfce4-notifyd [notification-daemon]  0.4.4-1+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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