Re: trouble starting NetworkManagerInfo on ubuntu

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 21:27 +0200, Thomas Bouve wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I've been trying to get NetworkManager working on Ubuntu but I ran into
> a few speedbumps (actually I'm stuck on top of one ;)).
> 
> I started NetworkManager as root (using sudo) so it runs in the
> background in daemon mode.  Now when I try to start NetworkManagerInfo
> as a refgular user, I get this:
> 
> NetworkManagerInfo: nmi_dbus_service_init() could not acquire its
> service.  dbus_bus_acquire_service() says: 'Connection ":1.5" is not
> allowed to own the service "`+  "" due to security policies in the
> configuration file'
> 
> Which doesn't sound too healthy :/
> 
> If I try to start NetworkManagerInfo as root, it just sits there and I
> don't get any systray icon either.  
> 
> Am I overlooking something?

Make sure there is a /etc/dbus-1/system.d/NetworkManagerInfo.conf file,
and that you've restarted your system (or the dbus messagebus daemon)
since you've installed NetworkManager...

Are you using it from CVS BTW?

Dan