[SOLVED]Insufficient Privileges With Nm-applet

xworld · 2012-07-03 22:53:40

Hello Arch forums. I have Network Manager as my erm...network manager and this is the first time I've taken my laptop out with me. When I go to the nm-applet and try to connect to a network I get this error

Failed to add/activate connection [32] Insufficient privileges

So I followed the Arch wiki. My .xinitrc contains: ck-launch-session dbus-launch openbox-session. I have my user added to the group wheel and network. I also created the file:
/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pkla and put this in it:

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

Still it spits out the same error. It says that with SLiM(which I have) it will take care of the consolekit automatically so I'm not sure why this won't work

Last edited by xworld (2012-07-22 02:15:56)

productninja · 2012-07-04 06:06:52

Hi, xworld.

It says that with SLiM(which I have) it will take care of the consolekit automatically so I'm not sure why this won't work

SLiM will take care of the consolekit automatically so that IS why it won't work. A tidbit I have forgotten many times. I just dealt with a terrible console kit experience, so I feel ya. My understanding is that if you ck-launch-session in your ~/.xinitrc when using slim, it actually BREAKS consolekit.

Here's my 2-cents.

1. Back up your slim.conf, .xinitrc, and inittab

sudo cp /etc/inittab /etc/inittab.bak
sudo cp /etc/slim.conf /etc/slim.conf.bak
cp ~/.xinitrc ~/.xinitrc.bak

2. If you have inittab launching slim into run-level 5, change it back to run-level 3 (terminal)

## Only one of the following two lines can be uncommented!
# Boot to console
#id:3:initdefault:
# Boot to X11
id:5:initdefault:

becomes

## Only one of the following two lines can be uncommented!
# Boot to console
id:3:initdefault:
# Boot to X11
#id:5:initdefault:

3. If you have slim in your rc.conf daemon array, remove it

4. Remove your slim.conf and xinitrc, reinstall consolekit and slim, reinstall networkmanager and network-manager-applet, and I'd recommend installing polkit-gnome as well

sudo rm /etc/slim.conf
sudo rm ~/.xinitrc
sudo pacman -Syuu  slim consolekit networkmanager network-manager-applet polkit-gnome

5. Make sure your rc.conf daemons have dbus before networkmanager, and (despite the wiki saying to !network) just remove it entirely, i.e.

DAEMONS=(... network ...)

becomes

DAEMONS=(... dbus networkmanager ...)

6. Create the simplest possible scenario in .xinitrc to test, e.g.

My .xinitrc looks like this for my working session:

#!/bin/sh
#
# ~/.xinitrc
#

if [-d /etc/X11//xinit/xinitrc.d ]; then
    for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/*; do
        [ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
    done
fi

[[ -f ~/.Xresources ]] && xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources &

xset r rate 250 60 &
xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/local
xset fp rehash

exec openbox-session & wmpid=$!

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

    thunar --daemon &
    urxvtd -q -o -f &
    
    blueman-applet &
    parcellite &
    volwheel &
    nitrogen --restore &
    unclutter -idle 5 -jitter 2 -reset -root &
    
    if which tint2 >/dev/null 2>&1; then
        (sleep 2 && xcompmgr -Cc) &
        (sleep 2 && tint2) &
    fi
    pytyle3 &

wait $wmpid

That setup depends on slim. If I were using startx (as you should for the simple test) and to simplify the boot process, I'd do this:

#!/bin/sh
#
# ~/.xinitrc
#

# launch my window manager with consolekit and dbus, assign the process id to a variable
exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch openbox-session & wmpid=$!

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

   # manually start up nm-applet since I'm not using slim
   (sleep 3 && nm-applet --sm-disable) &

   # restore my wallpaper to retain a little vanity
    nitrogen --restore &

   # start up my task bar so I can see the applet
    if which tint2 >/dev/null 2>&1; then
        (sleep 2 && xcompmgr -Cc) &
        (sleep 2 && tint2) &    fi

#wait for the session to end
wait $wmpid

7. reboot

8. Now, you should be at the tty login prompt. Log in and run:

ck-list-sessions

If you get something along these lines...

Session 1:
unix-user = '1000'
realname = 'your user'
seat = 'Seat 1'
... etc

You're looking good.

9. Type startx, and your .xinitrc should execute. tryout the applet.

10. If it doesn't work, open a terminal (or switch to a tty) and issue the ck-list-sessions command again. You should see two sessions, with the first one 'inactive' if things are working well.

If everything is copacetic after that, you can switch back to slim. Configure slim to your liking, and remove the ck-launch-session dbus-launch part from .xinitrc

The post is getting rather long, so I'll end there. If you're still having problems, post back -- I'm pretty sure I can get you sorted out on this one.

Last edited by productninja (2012-07-04 06:08:18)

productninja · 2012-07-04 06:13:48

I just thought to mention, too...

I don't know if it's of any consequence - shouldn't be, but SLiM has

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

as the default login command.

I use

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

I don't put the %session because I use openbox, and only openbox -- so that probably doesn't matter. It would most likely work with a session array and cases in the .xinitrc.
I changed /bin/sh to /bin/bash for some reason, and I don't recall why. Again, that shouldn't be significant, but thought I'd mention it.

You can see most of my config files (related to this) here

xworld · 2012-07-08 01:31:34

I would have responded sooner but I have been traveling across country. Thanks for the huge amount of info. I started to do as you say but I realized that I can't download anything because I don't have an internet connection. Which is the root of the problem. I guess I should have thought of that. It doesn't make sense to me because when I first installed Arch I installed networkmanager and obviously had no problem configuring the original network. The nm-applet works fine using the home connection. However it is no longer my home connection because I moved. Perhaps would reinstalling network manager do the trick? Then from there I could continue with the process of fixing this problem.

EDIT: So far I have done everything that you said to do and everything seemed to go fine.

Here's the output of ck-list-sessions

Session1:
	unix-user = '1000'
	realname = ''
	seat = 'Seat1'
	session-type = ''
	active = FALSE
	x11-display = ''
	x11-display-device = ''
	display-device = '/dev/tty1'
	remote-host-name = ''
	is-local = TRUE
	on-since = '2012-07-09T01:57:18.835959Z'
	login-session-id = '1'
	idle-since-hint = '2012-07-09T06:58:19.556838Z'
Session2:
	unix-user = '1000'
	realname = ''
	seat = 'Seat1'
	session-type = ''
	active = TRUE
	x11-display = ':0'
	x11-display-device = '/dev/tty7'
	display-device = '/dev/tty1'
	remote-host-name = ''
	is-local = TRUE
	on-since = '2012-07-09T06:57:51.396656Z'
	login-session-id = '1'

However the nm-applet stills gives me the same error.

Last edited by xworld (2012-07-09 07:06:04)

xworld · 2012-07-09 07:21:44

I suppose I should also post my .xinitrc:

#!/bin/sh
#
# ~/.xinitrc
#
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)

if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ]; then
  for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/*; do
    [ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
  done
  unset f
fi

[[ -f ~/.Xresources ]] && xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources &

xset r rate 250 60 &
xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/local
xset fp rehash

# exec gnome-session
# exec startkde
# exec startxfce4
# ...or the Window Manager of your choice
 exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch openbox-session & wmpid=$!

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

#wait for the session to end
wait $wmpid

I also tried without having ck-launch-sessions dbus-launch in there as well. Still no dice

EDIT: Strangely enough when I woke up this morning and tried the nm-applet it worked! For some reason though even though it shows that I am connected to the network it is unbelievably slow. So slow that the connection times out and I still really can't use the internet. I would normally chalk this up to a poor network but when I boot into windows it works fine. Is this a problem with networkmanager still?

Last edited by xworld (2012-07-09 15:31:38)

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#1 2012-07-03 22:53:40

[SOLVED]Insufficient Privileges With Nm-applet

#2 2012-07-04 06:06:52

Re: [SOLVED]Insufficient Privileges With Nm-applet

#3 2012-07-04 06:13:48

Re: [SOLVED]Insufficient Privileges With Nm-applet

#4 2012-07-08 01:31:34

Re: [SOLVED]Insufficient Privileges With Nm-applet

#5 2012-07-09 07:21:44

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