[Python-apps-team] Bug#627491: cnetworkmanager --nets doesn't work (but --connect and so on does)

[Albin Stjerna]

Package: cnetworkmanager
Version: 0.21.1-1.1
Severity: important

albin at motoko:~$ cnetworkmanager --nets
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/cnetworkmanager", line 178, in <module>
    aap = dev["ActiveAccessPoint"]
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbusclient/__init__.py", line 174, in __getitem__
    value = super(DBusClient, self).__getitem__(key)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbusclient/__init__.py", line 77, in __getitem__
    return pmi.Get(iface, key, byte_arrays=True)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/proxies.py", line 68, in __call__
    return self._proxy_method(*args, **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/proxies.py", line 140, in __call__
    **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/connection.py", line 630, in call_blocking
    message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Property "ActiveAccessPoint" of interface "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Device" isn't exported (or may not exist)

I'm not logged on to X yet, and as you can see, the nm-applet isn't in use. Actually, I get the same error even if I terminate gdm as well, and run cnetworkmanager on the bare console

albin at motoko:~$ ps aux |grep -i nm-applet
albin     2143  0.0  0.0   3436   756 pts/0    S+   08:50   0:00 grep -i nm-applet

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages cnetworkmanager depends on:
ii  network-manager              0.8.4.0-1   network management framework daemo
ii  python                       2.6.6-14    interactive high-level object-orie
ii  python-dbus                  0.83.1-1+b1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  python-gobject               2.28.4-1    Python bindings for the GObject li
ii  python-support               1.0.13      automated rebuilding support for P

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