Re: nmcli - inconsistent response to query......

[Another Sillyname <anothersname googlemail com>]

Ignore my previous, I had a brain f*rt!!

I just added a "$?" = 1 query immediately after the nmcli command to
ensure it hadn't output an error status....problem solved.

On 8 June 2015 at 15:28, Another Sillyname <anothersname googlemail com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a monitoring script that I wrote back end of last year to
> monitor the status of a TUN as gnome was not reporting when the TUN
> failed.
>
> As the problem didn't get resolved last year I waited till Fedora 22
> shipped with NM 1.x to revisit the problem.
>
> Withing the script there's a monitoring section that relies upon the output from
>
> > nmcli c show --active
>
> to give me the current status of the connections, however under F22 I
> am now occasionally seeing the error....
>
> (process:YYYYYY: nmcli-CRITICAL **: Error: Could not create NMClient
> object: Permissions request failed: Authorization check failed:
> GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message did not
> receive a reply (timeout by message bus).
> Debug for error code
> on
> Mon08Jun2015 at  3.03pm
>
> Instead of the expected........
>
> NAME             UUID
>   TYPE                  DEVICE
> tun0                UUID blanked out for obvious reasons     generic
>               tun0
> AVPN-TCP80  UUID blanked out for obvious reasons      vpn
>        enp9s0
> LAN                UUID blanked out for obvious reasons
> 802-3-ethernet      enp9s0
> Debug for error code
> on
> Mon08Jun2015 at  3.03pm
>
> This unexpected error message is playing havoc with the parsing in my
> script and as it doesn't happen under Fed21 I wonder what's
> changed......is there any way nmcli could handle a timeout error a bit
> more eloquently?
>
> Tony