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powerpleb

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[SOLVED] Network Manager daemon not loading from rc.conf

Hi all,

I'm having a bit of trouble getting NetworkManager to load up on system start. Basically I put it in rc.conf like so...

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng !network netfs crond hal alsa dhcdbd NetworkManager @fam @openntpd)

During the startup it says it starts up successfully, but...

When I load up Gnome the nm-applet doesn't appear. If I try 'nm-tools' as root it tells me NetworkManager isn't loaded. So if I then load 'NetworkManager' as root on the command like then go back to Gnome with my user account, nm-applet appears.

Short of putting NetworkManager into every users' .xinitrc how can I get it to load on bootup?

Last edited by powerpleb (2008-08-06 01:27:17)

wonder

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Re: [SOLVED] Network Manager daemon not loading from rc.conf

maybe because you put NetworkManager instead of networkmanager. lower case. also be sure to add your username to the network group

Last edited by wonder (2008-08-05 11:20:01)

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powerpleb

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Re: [SOLVED] Network Manager daemon not loading from rc.conf

Thanks for the reply...

I checked out the command name:

[andrew@myhost ~]$ which NetworkManager
/usr/sbin/NetworkManager
[andrew@myhost ~]$ which networkmanager
which: no networkmanager in (/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/opt/java/jre/bin:/usr/bin/perlbin/site:/usr/bin/perlbin/vendor:/usr/bin/perlbin/core)
[andrew@myhost ~]$

So that's not the problem...

and I definitely added myself to the network group because before that nm-applet wouldn't work at all. Anyway, I just double checked and yes I am in the network group.

Last edited by powerpleb (2008-08-05 12:58:24)

wonder

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Re: [SOLVED] Network Manager daemon not loading from rc.conf

uff. take a look in /etc/rc.d/ and see that is no NetworkManager in there.
the problem is that the DAEMONS list should contain the name of the init scripts for every daemon, init scripts found in /etc/rc.d

Last edited by wonder (2008-08-05 14:00:35)

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powerpleb

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Re: [SOLVED] Network Manager daemon not loading from rc.conf

I changed the name to lowercase and it works now.

Thanks a lot.

tigrmesh

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Re: [SOLVED] Network Manager daemon not loading from rc.conf

Hi powerpleb,

Please mark this thread as solved (edit your first post).  That way others with Network Manager daemon problems can find help.  Thanks.