Re: netmanager problems with ubuntu 8.04

["Darren Albers" <dalbers gmail com>]

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Eric S. Johansson <esj harvee org> wrote:
> Darren Albers wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Alexander Sack <asac jwsdot com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 07:23:30AM -0400, Darren Albers wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Check out the howto at the link I posted, you need to install
>>>> libdbus-glib-1-dev and libdbus-glib-2-dev
>>>
>>> The proper depends of nm 0.7 for hardy should already be in the PPA of
>>> the ubuntu network-manager team:
>>>
>>>  https://edge.launchpad.net/~network-manager/+archive
>>>
>>> Remember to get the wpasupplicant from there as well.
>>>
>>>  - Alexander
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I also should have clarified that you didn't need all the development
>> packages if you don't plan on building VPN plugins.
>>
>> I didn't realize that you had already packaged wpa_supplicant so I
>> will update my notes to use that package instead.   I know that you
>> are busy, but do you have plans to start building snapshots of NM 0.7?
>
> Having tried putting all the pieces together from what people said here, all
> I can say is "ouch".  While it is most definitely "no blame", please don't
> inflict these .deb on any other poor sod that happens to come along.  Why?
<Snip>

Did you edit /etc/dbus-1/system.d/nm-dhcp-client.conf as described in
the Howto?   The symptoms you describe seem identical to your account
not having the permissions required that editing nm-dhcp-client.conf
gives you.