FS#7266 - NetworkManager wireless works intermittently/fails

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Shira K (Shirakawasuna) - Friday, 25 May 2007, 08:14 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Sunday, 19 August 2007, 12:41 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Architecture i686
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.05 Duke
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

This is on an up-to-date i686 arch linux system as of 5/25/2007.

Others and myself seem to encounter issues with the networkmanager package, always in use with the gnome-network-manager or knetworkmanager frontends. This is how the problem manifests itself: using knetworkmanager (svn or otherwise) and attempting to connect to a wireless network (so far only tested on WEP-encrypted networks) results in a flash of the status message and failure. A similar issue with gnome-network-manager occurs but with a longer timeout. The main error of interest is: "Connection ":1.19" is not allowed to own the service "org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerInfo" due to security policies in the configuration file."

The problem seems to be caused something of a permissions/security issue within the setup, for example if I edit the /etc/dbus-1/system.d/NetworkManager file and add "<allow own="org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerInfo"/>" to the network group section, the problem is mostly solved. The first couple of times it tries to connect from a fresh reboot fail just like before, the third usually connects and then disconnects within a minute, the fourth stays. Messages such as "knetworkmanager: Encryption::isValid failed, bad inputs" seem to appear when the connection fails, although "knetworkmanager: Error: Could not serialize security information." remains as well.

More information on these possibly related issues here:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=33293
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Sunday, 19 August 2007, 12:41 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Wednesday, 25 July 2007, 21:52 GMT
Hmm, this looks like a permission issue that is covered in gnome-network-manager, but not in knetworkmanager. You could pacman -Sd gnome-network-manager, take a copy of nm-applet.conf and then pacman -R the package again, it should work with kdenetworkmanager also then. This is either a bug in gnome-network-manager and networkmanager (file should be moved/included in networkmanager), or in kdenetworkmanager for not including a suitable policy.

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