[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#673136: network-manager-gnome: nm-connection-editor shows no connections and everything is greyed out (can't edit anything)

[Jameson Graef Rollins]

Package: network-manager-gnome
Version: 0.9.4.1-1
Severity: important

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I have just installed network-manager and network-manager-gnome and am
so far completely unable to use it because of this problem.

I am able to start nm-applet, but when I open the nm-connection-editor
I can't do anything.  If I click "Add" in any of the tabs, all buttons
in the window that pops up are greyed out.  I can't create any kind of
connection, and therefore can't connect to the internet at all, either
wired or wireless.  Sometimes there appears to be a wired interface
available, but there doesn't appear to be any way to establish a
connection with it, so it's useless.

Here are some of the terminal messages I see when I start nm-applet:

  (nm-applet:4650): libnotify-WARNING **: Failed to connect to proxy

  ** (nm-applet:4650): WARNING **: Failed to show notification: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Notifications was not provided by any .service files

and if I click on "Add" in the Wireless tab:

  ** (nm-connection-editor:5142): WARNING **: Invalid setting Wireless: ssid

I don't get any messages when I try to "Add" in the "Wired" tab, but
still I am not able to do anything.

I am a member of netdev, and have even tried logging out and back in
multiple times with no affect.  I've tried changing between Managed
and Unmanaged mode ([ifupdown]managed=true in
/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf) also with no affect.  I've
read all the included documentation and I see nothing that would help
the issue.

It would be nice if at the very least the application would inform me
why I am unable to do anything with it.

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome depends on:
ii  dbus-x11             1.5.12-1
ii  dpkg                 1.16.2
ii  gconf-service        3.2.3-4
ii  gconf2               3.2.3-4
ii  gnome-icon-theme     3.4.0-2
ii  libatk1.0-0          2.4.0-2
ii  libc6                2.13-30
ii  libcairo-gobject2    1.10.2-7
ii  libcairo2            1.10.2-7
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.5.12-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2     0.98-1
ii  libfontconfig1       2.8.0-3.1
ii  libfreetype6         2.4.9-1
ii  libgconf-2-4         3.2.3-4
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0   2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.32.0-4
ii  libgnome-bluetooth8  3.2.2-1
ii  libgnome-keyring0    3.4.1-1
ii  libgtk-3-0           3.2.3-1
ii  libnm-glib-vpn1      0.9.4.0-3
ii  libnm-glib4          0.9.4.0-3
ii  libnm-gtk0           0.9.4.1-1
ii  libnm-util2          0.9.4.0-3
ii  libnotify4           0.7.5-1
ii  libpango1.0-0        1.29.4-3+b1
ii  network-manager      0.9.4.0-3
ii  policykit-1-gnome    0.105-2

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome recommends:
ii  gnome-bluetooth                        <none>
ii  iso-codes                              3.34-1
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring [libpam-keyring]  3.2.2-2
ii  mobile-broadband-provider-info         <none>
ii  notification-daemon                    0.7.4-1
ii  notify-osd [notification-daemon]       0.9.32-2

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome suggests:
pn  network-manager-openvpn-gnome  <none>
pn  network-manager-pptp-gnome     <none>
pn  network-manager-vpnc-gnome     <none>

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