[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#749778: network-manager: Connection activation failed: (32) Not authorized to control networking.

[Jameson Graef Rollins]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.9.8.10-2
Severity: normal

At some point recently I became unable to change the network-manager
configuration as a normal user.  For instance, when trying to switch
to a wireless network via nm-applet I get the following error message
in a pop-up window:

  Connection failure
  Connection activation failed
  (32) Not authorized to control networking.

I suspect that this lack of authorization is somehow related to the
fact that I don't use a display manager.  I state my X session by
entering:

  exec startx

in a virtual console.  I have no other problems with this setup that I
know of, other than this network-manager authorization issue.  I
currently resort to using nmcli as root to configure my network.

My user is in the "netdev" group, as required by policy-kit.  Here is
the contents of my NetworkManager pkla:

servo:~ 0# cat /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pkla
[nm-applet]
Identity=unix-group:netdev
Action=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.*
ResultAny=yes
ResultInactive=no
ResultActive=yes
servo:~ 0# 

Could the problem be related to "ResultInactive=no"?  Does something
think my current login session in "inactive"?  What would that be?

Please let me know if there's more information I can provide.  Thanks.

jamie.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-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 depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113+nmu3
ii  dbus                   1.8.2-1
ii  init-system-helpers    1.18
ii  isc-dhcp-client        4.2.4-7
ii  libc6                  2.18-5
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.8.2-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.102-1
ii  libgcrypt11            1.5.3-4
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.40.0-3
ii  libgnutls26            2.12.23-15
ii  libgudev-1.0-0         204-8
ii  libmm-glib0            1.0.0-4
ii  libnl-3-200            3.2.24-2
ii  libnl-genl-3-200       3.2.24-2
ii  libnl-route-3-200      3.2.24-2
ii  libnm-glib4            0.9.8.10-2
ii  libnm-util2            0.9.8.10-2
ii  libpam-systemd         204-8
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.105-5
ii  libsoup2.4-1           2.46.0-2
ii  libsystemd-daemon0     204-8
ii  libsystemd-login0      204-8
ii  libuuid1               2.20.1-5.7
ii  lsb-base               4.1+Debian12
ii  policykit-1            0.105-5
ii  udev                   204-8
ii  wpasupplicant          1.1-1

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
pn  crda          <none>
pn  dnsmasq-base  <none>
ii  iptables      1.4.21-1
pn  modemmanager  <none>
pn  ppp           <none>

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
ii  avahi-autoipd  0.6.31-4

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf changed:
[main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile
no-auto-default=02:52:02:0D:33:31,F0:DE:F1:18:C6:6A,
[ifupdown]
managed=true


-- no debconf information