Re: Networkmanager/dbus/wpa_supplicant

[Steev Klimaszewski <steev steev net>]

Robert Piasek wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Today I've updated NM to recent SVN build. When I run NetworkManager I 
> can see in logs:
>
> Jan 10 15:50:36 [NetworkManager] <info>  Trying to start the supplicant..._
> Jan 10 15:50:37 [NetworkManager] <info>  Trying to start the supplicant..._
>
> and it doesn't start it. When I manually run wpa_supplicant -u I can see:
>
> Jan 10 15:50:51 [NetworkManager] <info>  (eth0) supplicant interface is 
> now in state 1 (from 0)._
> Jan 10 15:50:51 [NetworkManager] <info>  (eth0) supplicant interface is 
> now in state 2 (from 1)._
>
> so everything seems to be fine.
>
> This happens for wired ethernet card (haven't tried on laptop yet to 
> check wireless).
> I'm using dbus-1.1.2 so it should start automatically right? Can it be 
> related with dbus policy settings?
>
> my current setting for NM is:
>
> cat /etc/dbus-1/system.d/NetworkManager.conf
>
> <!DOCTYPE busconfig PUBLIC
> "-//freedesktop//DTD D-BUS Bus Configuration 1.0//EN"
> "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/dbus/1.0/busconfig.dtd";>
> <busconfig>
>         <policy user="root">
>                 <allow own="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"/>
>                 <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"/>
>                 <allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"/>
>
> <allow own="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.PPP"/>
>                 <allow 
> send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.PPP"/>
>                 <allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.PPP"/>
>         </policy>
>         <policy group="plugdev">
>                  <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"/>
>                  <allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"/>
>          </policy>
>          <policy context="default">
>                 <allow own="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"/>
>                 <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"/>
>                 <allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"/>
>
>                 <deny own="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.PPP"/>
>                 <deny 
> send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.PPP"/>
>                 <deny send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.PPP"/>
>         </policy>
>
>         <limit name="max_replies_per_connection">512</limit>
> </busconfig>
>
> cat /etc/dbus-1/system.d/wpa_supplicant.conf
>
> <!DOCTYPE busconfig PUBLIC
> "-//freedesktop//DTD D-BUS Bus Configuration 1.0//EN"
> "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/dbus/1.0/busconfig.dtd";>
> <busconfig>
>         <policy user="root">
>                 <allow own="fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant"/>
>
>                 <allow send_destination="fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant"/>
>                 <allow send_interface="fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant"/>
>         </policy>
>         <policy at_console="true">
>                 <allow send_destination="fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant"/>
>                 <allow send_interface="fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant"/>
>         </policy>
>         <policy context="default">
>                 <deny own="fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant"/>
>                 <deny send_destination="fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant"/>
>                 <deny send_interface="fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant"/>
>         </policy>
> </busconfig>
>
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> Robert
>
>
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You may want to try the dbus 1.1.3 snapshot in my developer overlay.

Its publicly located at http://git.overlays.gentoo.org (just look on 
gitweb for the url)