Bug#553672: system-tools-backends: *-admin apps report "You are not allowed access to the system configuration"

[Josselin Mouette]

Le mardi 03 novembre 2009 à 09:50 -0500, Jody a écrit : 
> This bug is also easily reproduced: simply install "squeeze" (with GNOME 
> desktop) amd64 onto any amd64-capable machine and watch (A) 
> NetworkManager applet indicate "no network connected" and refuse to 
> allow configuration of network devices, and (B) all *-admin apps fail to 
> start.  I have managed to work around some of the *-admin apps issue by 
> installing gnome-system-tools and system-tools-backends from Debian 
> "unstable.  Those versions of gnome-system-tools give me a button to 
> press to make changes, which then asks for the root password, and they 
> function as expected.  (Workarounds I've found online include adding 
> "gksu" to the menu items for these apps, but the upgrade makes that 
> unnecessary.)

Well, this means there is nothing to do on our side if the bug is
already fixed, then.

> Unfortunately, network-manager-gnome is the same version in Debian 
> unstable.  I can't "upgrade my way out."  The *specific* problem is that 
> the NM applet indicates I simply have "no network connections" and shows 
> a nice red-and-white "X" on its icon.  Clicking it once brings up a menu 
> with a greyed out: "Wired network" and below that "device not managed" 
> as well as an apparently functional "VPN Connections" menu which I do 
> not use.

This looks like a well-known issue in network-manager. For now, you need
to disable the network card in /etc/network/interfaces and configure it
as a system connection in NM itself. An automated migration is planned
but it still remains to do.

Cheers, 
-- 
 .''`.      Josselin Mouette
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  `-     future understand things”  -- Jörg Schilling
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