Re: NM applet: NetworkManagerUserSettings service not found

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 11:44 +0200, Marco wrote:
> Compiled last network-manager-applet from:
> URL: https://svn.gnome.org/svn/network-manager-applet/trunk
> Repository: https://svn.gnome.org/svn/network-manager-applet
> UUID del Repository: 9c6bbc85-7128-0410-879a-9bbc9e4270e9
> Revisione: 713
> 
> Starting "nm-applet --sm-disable" I have:
> ** (nm-applet:21205): WARNING **: <WARN>  applet_dbus_manager_start_service(): C
> ould not acquire the NetworkManagerUserSettings service.
>   Message: 'Connection ":1.15" is not allowed to own the service "org.freedeskto
> p.NetworkManagerUserSettings" due to security policies in the configuration file
> '
> 
> 
> (nm-applet:21205): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJ
> ECT (object)' failed
> 
> I serach around network manager server to find the dbus service "org.freedeskto
> p.NetworkManagerUserSettings" but I couldn't find any.
> Ther is only "org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSystemSettings.service",
> did I miss something?

Are you on a debian-derived distro?  If so, you need to change
the /etc/dbus-1/system.d/nm-applet.conf file to use group="netdev"
instead of at_console or something along those lines, since debian uses
a different method of authenticating who can and cannot control services
on the bus.  Then your user must be in the netdev group.  The patch in
this link shows you how to do this:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=426467

Dan