Re: Small problems in Ubuntu hoary.

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 14:28 -0800, Brad Griffith wrote:
> First, thank you so much for your work on
> NetworkManager.  It has already made using Linux on
> laptops far more enjoyable and I feel a lot more
> comfortable setting up friends with Ubuntu with it.
> 
> I compiled NetworkManager from CVS a few days ago and
> it works great, but I have to:
> 
> 1)Run NetworkManager manually (i.e. when I boot I run,
> sudo /etc/init.d/NetworkManager start)

There is checking to figure out what distribution you're running on, if
you could verify that the initscript found in
initscript/Debian/NetworkManager gets installed in the correct place
_and_ that you turned it on appropriately (ie, in Fedora you have to run
'chkconfig --level 2345 NetworkManager on' to actually turn it on) that
would be great.

> and 2)Run NetworkManagerInfo as root or I get this
> error message: NetworkManagerInfo:
> nmi_dbus_service_init() could not acquire its service.
>  dbus_bus_acquire_service() says: 'Connection ":1.11"
> is not allowed to own the service
> "org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerInfo" due to security
> policies in the configuration file'

NMI should always be run as your user of course, so there seems to be an
issue here.  Can you tell me what verison of DBus you're running, and
what the contents of /etc/dbus-1/system.d/NetworkManagerInfo.conf is,
that would help a lot.  I believe (and John Palmieri or Colin Walters
can correct me) that the version of dbus you're running has to have the
Console User permissions patch so that NetworkManagerInfo program can
access the system bus.

Dan