nm-applet not working ( insufficient privileges )

Sample · 2012-02-20 20:41:31

Hello, everybody

$ sudo /etc/rc.d/networkmanager restart
Password: 
:: Stopping NetworkManager                                               [DONE] 
:: Starting NetworkManager                                               [DONE] 

$ nm-applet --sm-disable &
[1] 1305
$ ** Message: applet now removed from the notification area
** Message: applet now embedded in the notification area

** (nm-applet:1305): WARNING **: Failed to add/activate connection: (32) Insufficient privileges.

.xinitrc

exec ck-launch-session openbox-session

The fun part is that it brings up ethernet connection, but once I click on any of the available wireless networks, bam ( see above ) ..

What am I missing here ?

DSpider · 2012-02-20 21:53:20

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NetworkManager

This is how I start my Openbox session:

exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session openbox-session

Sample · 2012-02-21 07:37:26

DSpider wrote:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NetworkManager
This is how I start my Openbox session:
exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session openbox-session

Nothing ( literally ) changed.

pmd · 2012-02-21 09:10:46

Yo!
Check this out ArchWiki - Set up PolicyKit Permissions

Sample · 2012-02-21 10:09:07

pmd wrote:

Yo!
Check this out ArchWiki - Set up PolicyKit Permissions

The part I do not understand:

This sometimes may still not be enough. You may have to manually start polkit-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 for network manger to work.

Additionally, the user must either (1) run a PolicyKit authentication agent, such as the one provided by polkit-gnome, or (2) be in a group explicitly granted permissions by the system administrator.

Other than that, ConsoleKit is installed and I am already using it ( .xinitrc line in my first post ).

DSpider · 2012-02-21 10:16:58

Are you in the wheel group?

# groups $USER

Last edited by DSpider (2012-02-21 10:17:17)

Sample · 2012-02-21 10:24:19

DSpider wrote:

Are you in the wheel group?
# groups $USER

Yes ( + network, audio, video, storage ).

pmd · 2012-02-22 01:51:47

I can't find entry about that on wiki, but I'm pretty sure that you need this file

/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pkla

Just create it manually

Here is the content

[nm-applet]
Identity=unix-group:network
Action=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.*
ResultAny=yes
ResultInactive=no
ResultActive=yes

Also process polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 needs to be running. You can check it using:

ps -ef | grep polkit-gnome

It should produce output like that:

root@r500:/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d# ps -ef | grep polkit-gnome
pmd       1425     1  0 Feb16 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/polkit-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
root      7494  6568  0 02:43 pts/3    00:00:00 grep polkit-gnome

Mine is starting by /etc/xdg/autostart/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1.desktop. If you don't have that file just put...

/usr/lib/polkit-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 &

... in your ~/.xinitrc, openbox autostart or whatever.

Check if this file (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1) exists, if it's not, install polkit-gnome package

Sample · 2012-02-22 17:40:08

pmd wrote:

I can't find entry about that on wiki, but I'm pretty sure that you need this file
/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pkla
Just create it manually
Here is the content
[nm-applet]
Identity=unix-group:network
Action=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.*
ResultAny=yes
ResultInactive=no
ResultActive=yes
Also process polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 needs to be running. You can check it using:
ps -ef | grep polkit-gnome
It should produce output like that:
root@r500:/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d# ps -ef | grep polkit-gnome
pmd       1425     1  0 Feb16 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/polkit-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
root      7494  6568  0 02:43 pts/3    00:00:00 grep polkit-gnome
Mine is starting by /etc/xdg/autostart/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1.desktop. If you don't have that file just put...
/usr/lib/polkit-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 &
... in your ~/.xinitrc, openbox autostart or whatever.
Check if this file (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1) exists, if it's not, install polkit-gnome package

Why do all the good answers start to roll in right after you have quit trying ?

Thank you for the information and I will definitely save this for the future reference, but I have switched to wicd for now and it works just great.

android_808 · 2012-04-09 10:59:27

Still can't get it to work. Polkit started automatically by xfce, policy in place and added to network group.

[root@host ~]# ps -ef | grep polkit
root 219 1 0 11:38 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug
user 395 1 0 11:39 tty1 00:00:00 /usr/lib/polkit-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
root 628 606 0 11:43 pts/0 00:00:00 grep polkit

[root@host ~]# cat /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pkla
[nm-applet]
Identity=unix-group:network
Action=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.*
ResultAny=yes
ResultInactive=no
ResultActive=yes

[user@host ~]$ groups
lp wheel games network video audio optical storage scanner power users

Error:
** (nm-applet:733): WARNING **: Failed to add/activate connection: (32) Not authorized to control networking.

Edit: Changed login manager, seems to have sorted it.

Last edited by android_808 (2012-04-09 11:26:33)

r0b0t · 2012-05-09 11:41:40

Hey I have the same problems,
untill now was working great, (with the first configuration, followed arch wiki and configured everything properly and never had problems)
today just suddenly ....

# cat /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pkla
[nm-applet]
Identity=unix-group:network
Action=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.*
ResultAny=yes
ResultInactive=no
ResultActive=yes

grep polkit-gnome
arditi    1651     1  0 14:25 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/polkit-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
root      2157  2154  0 14:35 pts/1    00:00:00 grep polkit-gnome
$ groups
disk mail uucp log locate cron games clamav kvm network video audio optical storage scanner power users vboxusers usbmux

please somebody suggest something!

r0b0t · 2012-05-09 12:27:14

I think this have nothing to do either with how it's configured (nothing changed with my previous configuration) or how the wm is executed :

.xinitrc
exec openbox-session &
slim config:
login_cmd exec ck-launch-session /bin/bash -login ~/.xinitrc %session

Running nm-manager as root and than trying to get in the VPN this is shown:

** (nm-applet:1724): WARNING **: Could not create object for /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/2: Method "GetAll" with signature "s" on interface "org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" doesn't exist

and also by doing other operations it seems that this org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties doesn't really exist so this ( I think ) is also the reason of all this trouble.
Maybe some other service is conflicting :
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1594566
or some related bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723325
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=654874
https://bugs.launchpad.net/upstart/+bug/990636

however this is really bad

Last edited by r0b0t (2012-05-09 12:29:48)

r0b0t · 2012-05-09 19:16:09

Hi again,

now when I try to connect with my VPN (of course running nm-applet as root ) this is what happens:
http://pastie.org/3885730
I found that this is a bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … bug/985788
So why I'm posting?
it seems that one of the ubuntu guys found a solution basically it says:
-------------
$ pkill gnome-shell
$ pkill nm-applet
$ nm-applet &
[1] 9782
** Message: applet now removed from the notification area
** Message: using fallback from indicator to GtkStatusIcon
$ gnome-shell &

Now when I try to connect to the VPN, gnome-shell logs the same error(!), but now nm-applet takes over and lets me log in and connect.
-----------------

but I have running only :
ps aux | grep gnome
vak 1685 0.0 0.1 213276 7200 ? Sl 22:00 0:00 /usr/lib/polkit-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
vak 1751 0.0 0.0 8328 724 ? S 22:00 0:00 gnome-pty-helper
vak 1769 0.0 0.0 8328 712 ? S 22:01 0:00 gnome-pty-helper

which one of them should I kill?
what to do?

wonder · 2012-05-09 20:21:06

if you use gnome-shell, you do not need /usr/lib/polkit-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 because gnome-shell has its own agent incorporated

chamber · 2012-05-09 20:34:37

Also, if you are using slim and it has recently updated you no longer need to have ck-launch-session after the exec in your .xinitrc

r0b0t · 2012-05-09 21:16:01

@wonder (don't use gnome-shell) I asked just because I didn't know what to kill (in the command ps aux | grep gnome is shown everything with gnome in it running).

Thanks I found this , was crazy I never imagined slim would do something like this.
If you launch ck-list-sessions you will see th sessions not active.
By downgrading to the previous version everything was solved, the permission issues also the vpn issues.
I JUST DON'T ..... BELIEVE I spent my day on this

@chamber I'v never used it in .xinitrc , I put it in slim.conf

However to anybody to solve this just downgrade slim you can directly pacman -U http://arm.konnichi.com/extra/os/x86_64 … pkg.tar.xz

ENJOY and put slim in
IgnorePkg = (pacman.conf)

chamber · 2012-05-09 21:41:58

or modify your slim.conf so that it reads

login_cmd exec /bin/bash -login ~/.xinitrc %session

rather than not updating it.

From the wiki

Note: slim is also ConsoleKit capable since version 1.3.3. Unless you happen to run an old version, you must no longer include ck-launch-session from your .xinitrc or slim.conf login_cmd.

zyke · 2012-05-09 23:27:25

I had the exact problem today when I updated my SLIM.

I can confirm that Chambers solution work great

- open up /home/$user/.xinitrc with your favourite text editor.

- on the line that says "exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch" remove the "ck-launch-session"

- save and restart your WM/DE.

r0b0t · 2012-05-10 11:22:01

Somebody should mark this a solved, thanks all.

@chamber , your solution is better thanks for head's up

Last edited by r0b0t (2012-05-10 11:26:02)

r0b0t · 2012-05-10 11:49:55

Forgot to mention that if this kind of changes are made, at least a comment during the installation should appear for not driving ppl crazy lol

Mr_Miyagi · 2012-05-13 18:24:15

zyke wrote:

I had the exact problem today when I updated my SLIM.
I can confirm that Chambers solution work great
- open up /home/$user/.xinitrc with your favourite text editor.
- on the line that says "exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch" remove the "ck-launch-session"
- save and restart your WM/DE.

Lol, been trying to solve this issue the whole day...was just about to throw the computer out the window. This solution works.
So irritating since some of the information I have read today has been to make sure "ck-launch-session" is there, and not the opposite.
Glad to see this working, thanks a bunch!

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