Re: No NetworkManagerInfo

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 10:42 -0400, Nathaniel McCallum wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 09:24 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 10:53 +0200, Magnus Ottosson wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > > 
> > > I just compiled NM with under gentoo with the atached ebuild. After
> > > compilation I started NM with success. But when I try to start
> > > NetworkManagerInfo this binary does not exist! I only have the binaries
> > > NetworkManager and NetworkManagerDispatch. Has the NetworkManagerInfo
> > > changed name since the 0.4 release or is something wrong?
> > > 
> > > magnus
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I merged NetworkManagerInfo and the applet, which is now called
> > "nm-applet" defaulting to /usr/libexec.
> 
> I'm one of the maintainers for that package (which is in a private
> overlay tree, not the main tree).  I rewrote the backend for Gentoo to
> more closely resemble RedHats (and to work, it was broken).  Once I'm
> confident that the backend is somewhat stable, I'll pass it up to you.
> 
> 
> The daemon seems to work fine.  However, the applet has problems.  After
> install (and restarting dbus/hal), when you run the applet it says it
> has permissions problems.  So I changed "default"
> in /etc/dbus-1/system.d/nm-applet to allow, the applet loads fine, but
> shows no devices detected.  I'm not really sure how to go about
> debugging this, so any help you could offer would be great.

You could run the "test" tool in test/nmtest to directly ask NM about
what devices it knows.  (ignore the message about no active device)
That will tell you whether its the applet or NetworkManager.

Dan