Re: Strange error in NetworkManager 0.8.2

[Robby Workman <rw rlworkman net>]

On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 09:30:19 +0300
Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar gmail com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Robert Gabriel
> <robert linux-source org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 22:41, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> >> On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 20:21 +0100, Robert Gabriel wrote:
> >>> Hello,
> >>>  Im getting the below errors once in a while, mostly when shutting
> >>> down the system or NetworkManager:
> >>
> >> This is suppressed in git and should be part of NM 0.8.4.  It's
> >> because an applet shut down earlier than NM did.  The message is
> >> harmless, but annoying.
> >>
> >> Dan
> >
> > But it's normal for networkmanager-applet to shutdown earlier. Is
> > there a patch for this?
> > If not, if I clone the current git repository for
> > networkmanager-applet will it fix the issue?
> > Or I actually need to pull NetworkManager?
> >
> 
> You need this commit from NM:
> 
> commit 83e02840b5ce1cf8c122cc70918ddd57396c91db
> Author: Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>
> Date:   Tue Nov 23 22:17:21 2010 -0600
> 
>     core: suppress error message when user settings service is not
> active
> 
>     Don't bother trying to initialize the user settings proxy when it
>     isn't even active.  Would trigger a warning to syslog if PolicyKit
>     permissions changed via changes to /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/.


Robert,

That patch (among others) is included in the build I maintain
at SlackBuilds.org - you might consider tracking that and save
yourself some effort :-)

http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13.1/network/NetworkManager/

-RW