On 16.05.2012 15:34, Jameson Graef Rollins wrote: > On Wed, May 16 2012, Michael Biebl <bi...@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 -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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