Re: No user settings service available

[alkos333 <me alkos333 net>]

On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Robby Workman <rw rlworkman net> wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:01:10 -0600
> alkos333 <me alkos333 net> wrote:
>
>> After updating to 0.8.2, NetworkManager pretty much stopped working
>> entirely.  When I plug in the ethernet cord or my the phone via usb
>> (with dhcpcd server running on it), nothing happens - NetworkManager
>> shows that they are plugged in, but doesn't conntect to them
>> automatically like it used to.
>>
>> When I try to connect to a wireless signal using the nm-applet,
>> nothing happens either and I get the following in the console:
>>
>> <WARN> activate_connection_cb(): Connection activation failed: No user
>> settings service available.
>>
>> I'm running Slackware64 13.1 here.  Anybody else ran into similar
>> issues?
>
>
> Well...
>
> There's this commit in the NM_0_8 branch:
>
>  commit 5a3b773cd520aaf0b615880a6565ca2ca27612af
>  Author: Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>
>  Date:   Tue Aug 10 15:46:33 2010 -0500
>
>      libnm-glib: better handling of missing user settings service
>
>      If it's not running or we can't spawn it (it's not supposed to be
>      autospawned anyway) we should just ignore the error and poke clients
>      that we've tried and failed to get user settings instead of warning
>      with an annoying message.
>
> However, I don't see how that would muck up anything.
>
> More importantly, I'm seeing this locally:
>
>  Dec 17 19:43:43 liberty NetworkManager[2209]: <error> [nm-manager.c:1368] user_proxy_init(): could not init user settings proxy: (3) Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings': no such name
>
> Everything is working fine for me though, but I have all of my
> connections configured to be system-wide, so maybe that's why.
>
>
>> The following page:
>> http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManager/RemovingUserSettings  explains
>> the removal of user settings service, but does not explain anything
>> specifically.
>
>
> I think that page is an account of what's planned for 0.9, so not
> relevant here.
>
> -RW
>


Removing nm-system-settings.conf from /etc/NetworkManager folder fixes
NetworkManager daemon and wired connections are connected to
automatically when plugged in.  and 0.8.2 makes use of
NetworkManager.conf instead.  Removing that file, fixes the
NetworkManager daemon when it comes to wired connections.  However,
attempting to connect to any wireless or VPN via the applet, fails
here.  I'm getting the following while trying to connect to a vpn:

** (nm-applet:1168): WARNING **: <WARN>  activate_vpn_cb(): VPN
Connection activation failed:
(org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.PermissionDenied) No user settings
service available


And the following when I attempt to connect to a wireless AP:
** (nm-applet:1168): WARNING **: <WARN>  activate_connection_cb():
Connection activation failed: No user settings service available


Looks like 0.8.2 doesn't deploy a d-bus policy for plugdev group
anymore and expects polkit instead.

Here are a few threads I discovered:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-856143.html?sid=cc3c504347e4babb362db34645d580d1
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=348517

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Alex Lysenka
B.S. in Computer Science
B.S. in Management & Information Systems
Northern Illinois University
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