[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1003078: network-manager-gnome: Can't disable Networking/Wi-Fi, can't remove/edit connections (No polkit authorization)

[Michael Biebl]

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Which desktop environment is this?
Can you provide steps how this can be reproduced?


On Mon, 03 Jan 2022 19:36:59 +0100 Ivan Vilata i Balaguer 
<ivan at selidor.net> wrote:
> Package: network-manager-gnome
> Version: 1.24.0-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> After updating `network-manager-gnome`, the toggles "Enable Networking" and
> "Enable Wi-Fi" that show on right-click over the `nm-applet` appear active but
> grayed out and not responsive.  Also, if I choose "Edit Connections...", and
> choose a connection in the "Network Connections" list, the "-" and gears
> buttons in the bottom remain grayed out and a tooltip shows up with
> "No polkit authorization to perform the action".
> 
> Since I'm not running the whole GNOME, I installed `policykit-1-gnome`, ran
> `/usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1` and restarted
> `nm-applet` with same results.  As my user belongs to `netdev`, I also tried
> the `/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/WHATEVER.pkla` config mentioned
> in #642136 to no avail (after restarting polkit and NetworkManager):
> 
>     [Adding or changing system-wide NetworkManager connections]
>     Identity=unix-group:netdev
>     Action=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.system
>     ResultAny=no
>     ResultInactive=no
>     ResultActive=yes
> 
> Other applets like `nm-tray` allow me to disable Networking/Wi-Fi without
> issues, and `nmtui-*` tools allow me to edit connections just fine, so it
> seems specific to this package and not `network-manager`.
> 
> Thanks a lot, and cheers!
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: bookworm/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: armhf, i386
> 
> Kernel: Linux 5.15.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
> Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
> Locale: LANG=ca_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ca_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=ca:es
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/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]  1.12.20-3
> ii  dbus-x11 [dbus-session-bus]                   1.12.20-3
> ii  libatk1.0-0                                   2.36.0-3
> ii  libayatana-appindicator3-1                    0.5.90-5
> ii  libc6                                         2.33-1
> ii  libcairo2                                     1.16.0-5
> ii  libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0                           2.42.6+dfsg-2
> ii  libglib2.0-0                                  2.70.2-1
> ii  libgtk-3-0                                    3.24.31-1
> ii  libjansson4                                   2.13.1-1.1
> ii  libmm-glib0                                   1.18.4-1
> ii  libnm0                                        1.32.12-1
> ii  libnma0                                       1.8.32-1
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