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Cbhihe

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Registered: 2017-04-09

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gnome-shell Error checking authorization for NetworkManager

On a host running gdm and libgdm v 43.0-1, Network Manager is not installed. Instead USER resorts to  netctl(**) and to editing manual profiles, for both WiFi and wired connectivity.  Connectivity has been stable over the last months, upon booting, resuming from hibernation, from session lock-screen. All is well.

The boot log systematically contains the following line repeated 24 times...

gnome-shell[...]: Error checking authorization for action id org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.network-control: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: Action org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.network-control is not registered 

I'd like to rid the journal from that error message, if at all possible. How can I make Gnome understand that looking for the NetworkManager is futile ?

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Since the gnome-shell is involved I imagined there could be some Gnome extension related to NetworkManager, installed by default and causing the error to be logged. So I looked at extensions, but there seems to be nothing out of the ordinary there, except for the fact I took away 'user-theme@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com':

 > ls -lAF /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/
'apps-menu@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com'/
'auto-move-windows@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com'/
'drive-menu@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com'/
'launch-new-instance@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com'/
'native-window-placement@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com'/
'places-menu@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com'/
'screenshot-window-sizer@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com'/
'window-list@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com'/
'windowsNavigator@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com'/
'workspace-indicator@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com'/

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(**) Note:

> systemctl list-unit-files netctl*
UNIT FILE                   STATE    PRESET  
netctl-auto-resume@.service indirect disabled
netctl-auto@.service        indirect disabled
netctl-ifplugd@.service     indirect disabled
netctl-sleep.service        enabled  disabled
netctl-wait-online.service  enabled  disabled
netctl.service              enabled  disabled
netctl@.service             static   -       
7 unit files listed.

Last edited by Cbhihe (2022-10-24 17:13:34)

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