Re: nm-applet randomly fighting with dbus

[Alexander Sack <asac jwsdot com>]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 11:06:51PM -0500, Peter Davoust wrote:
> Recently (in the past few days) and for no apparent reason (no update
> I can remember, only removing kubuntu-desktop), nm-applet gives me
> this when I start it:
> 
> ** (nm-applet:12061): WARNING **: <WARN>  nma_dbus_init(): could not
> acquire its service.  dbus_bus_acquire_service() says: 'Connection
> ":1.22" is not allowed to own the service
> "org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerInfo" due to security policies in the
> configuration file
> 
> I've changed the /etc/dbus-1/system.d/NetworkManager.conf file so that
> it allows in all cases, but it doesn't work. I've also tried nm-applet
> --sm-disable, but when I run nm-applet as root, it runs right off the
> bat and connects fine. A little googling told me to do what I had
> already done (edit the conf file), so I tried it again (crossing my
> fingers) to no avail.
> 
> Can anyone suggest anything?

Please try to use the ubuntu support facilities (forum + irc). Without
knowing anything, I would try to reinstall the network-manager-gnome
package. Maybe this brings back the proper policy file.

 - Alexander