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mark-o-solo

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Registered: 2012-03-19

Posts: 77

NetworkManager not working: not authorized

Dear community,
I have been facing this problem for a while now and I think it is time to seek help. When trying to connect to a wireless network on my laptop, I get the notification:
(32) Not authorized to control networking
running sudo nm-applet gives me (in the terminal):
Failed to register as an agent: (32) no session found for uid 0
But it opens in the notification area. Trying to connect to a network with the sudo applet gives me:
async_get_type /orgfreedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/2 : Method "Get" with signature "ss" on interface "org.freebus.DBus.Properties" doesnt exist
The following threads did not help:
http://bbs.archbang.org/viewtopic.php?id=2759
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=118351
My xinitrc contains:
exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch startlxde
All help is appreciated

Last edited by mark-o-solo (2012-08-14 13:09:53)

Fliegenfalle

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Registered: 2012-07-11

Posts: 30

Re: NetworkManager not working: not authorized

are you in the "network" group?
If not, try

gpasswd -a [username] network

Visit this Wiki article for more infos about users, groups and permissions.

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: NetworkManager not working: not authorized

first of all, you need to start networkmanager, then install polkit-gnome and be sure that the proces /usr/lib/polkit-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 it's running after login.

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mark-o-solo

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Registered: 2012-03-19

Posts: 77

Re: NetworkManager not working: not authorized

I AM member of the network group, polkit-gnome is installed and  networkmanager as well as usr/lib/polkit-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 are running.
I feel really helpless about this bug

Last edited by mark-o-solo (2012-08-14 19:19:06)

mark-o-solo

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Registered: 2012-03-19

Posts: 77

Re: NetworkManager not working: not authorized

anyone ?

debazthed

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Registered: 2012-01-05

Posts: 24

Re: NetworkManager not working: not authorized

So you can connect to networks manually or with a different tool like wicd?

mark-o-solo

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Registered: 2012-03-19

Posts: 77

Re: NetworkManager not working: not authorized

yes, wicd does connect

StR@ng3r

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Registered: 2011-11-12

Posts: 65

Re: NetworkManager not working: not authorized

Open /etc/dbus-1/systemd/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.conf change "deny" to "allow" for a couple of entries.
This is mine: http://paste2.org/p/2127463

Last edited by StR@ng3r (2012-08-16 18:07:22)