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

[Michael Biebl]

On 16.05.2012 15:34, Jameson Graef Rollins wrote:
> On Wed, May 16 2012, Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
>> You need a active ConsoleKit session, ie. please make sure you have
>> consolekit and policykit installed (the latter is a recommends of
>> network-manager).
>> Then use a login manager, like gdm3, kdm or lightdm, which set's up a
>> ConsoleKit session properly.
>>
>> A active ConsoleKit session is required by NetworkManager to determine
>> if you are allowed to control the network settings or not.
> 
> I have consolekit, policykit-1, and policykit-1-gnome all already
> installed.  I guess you wanted me to run ck-list-sesssions, not
> ck-list-session:
> 
> servo:~ 0$ ck-list-sessions
> Session12:
> 	unix-user = '1000'
> 	realname = ''
> 	seat = 'Seat2'
> 	session-type = ''
> 	active = FALSE
> 	x11-display = ':0'
> 	x11-display-device = '/dev/tty7'
> 	display-device = ''
> 	remote-host-name = ''
> 	is-local = FALSE
> 	on-since = '2012-05-16T10:36:53.044308Z'
> 	login-session-id = '4294967295'
> servo:~ 0$ 
> 
> In any event, as far as I understand things according to the
> documentation included with network-manager, the point of consolekit is
> to ensure that the user is a member of netdev.  That can either be
> managed by consolekit, or the user can be added to that group manually.
> As I am already a member of netdev, even without consolekit's help, I
> don't see how this is the issue:

No, that's not how group netdev and consolekit work.

In any case, as you can see above, your session is marked
active = FALSE
is-local = FALSE

That's why you can't edit/change the NM settings.

The easiest way to fix that is to use a login manager as I mentioned
earlier.
See also
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=597937
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