Re: Network Manage/DBus problem? (Ubuntu/Feisty)

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 13:18 -0400, W. James MacLean wrote:
> I can't seem to get Network-Manager to run properly under Ubuntu
> (Feisty). The 'nm-applet' icon shows in the panel, and it lists
> available wireless networks, but when I try to select one, nothing
> happens. The following error message does appear in /var/log/syslog:
> 
> Jul 12 15:43:07 localhost NetworkManager:
> nm_ap_security_new_deserialize: assertion
> `dbus_message_iter_get_arg_type (iter) == DBUS_TYPE_INT32' failed
> Jul 12 15:43:07 localhost NetworkManager: <WARNING>^I
> nm_dbus_nm_set_active_device (): nm-dbus-nm.c:288
> (nm_dbus_nm_set_active_device): Invalid argument (wireless security info).

That probably means that whatever applet you're using isn't matched with
the version of NetworkManager.  What exact versions of the applet and NM
are you running?

Dan

> 
> Now, I don't think it's a hardware problem, as if I boot the same
> machine with the Feisty LiveCD, Network-Manager appears to work OK.
> I'm guessing it's a configuration problem, but other than
> /etc/network/interfaces, what else could be wrong? What other
> configuration files affect Network-Manager?
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> James