Re: User can't run nm-tool on 12.10 system

2013-02-03 Thread John Hupp
On 1/14/2013 9:30 AM, Chris Green wrote: On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 11:13:19AM -0500, John Hupp wrote: It has probably been done by a mix of Network Manager and direct editing over quite a long time. If this is the cause do you have any idea how to get back to a "completely controlled by N

Re: User can't run nm-tool on 12.10 system

2013-01-14 Thread Chris Green
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 09:41:28AM -0500, John Hupp wrote: > Thanks, it now works, but there is one gotcha: > > It only works (as in nm-tool works for a non-root user) if that user has > logged in to a live X desktop on the system, if there's no live login > then I get an error message. Loggi

Re: User can't run nm-tool on 12.10 system

2013-01-14 Thread John Hupp
On 1/14/2013 9:30 AM, Chris Green wrote: On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 11:13:19AM -0500, John Hupp wrote: It has probably been done by a mix of Network Manager and direct editing over quite a long time. If this is the cause do you have any idea how to get back to a "completely controlled by N

Re: User can't run nm-tool on 12.10 system

2013-01-13 Thread John Hupp
On 1/13/2013 7:01 AM, Chris Green wrote: On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 03:00:06PM -0500, John Hupp wrote: On 1/12/2013 10:27 AM, Chris Green wrote: [snip] However it works fine when run as the root user. A further symptom of the same thing (I think) is that the Network Manager applet is

Re: User can't run nm-tool on 12.10 system

2013-01-13 Thread Chris Green
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 03:00:06PM -0500, John Hupp wrote: >On 1/12/2013 10:27 AM, Chris Green wrote: > [snip] > However it works fine when run as the root user. > > A further symptom of the same thing (I think) is that the Network Manager > applet is > non-functional, the icon is there

Re: User can't run nm-tool on 12.10 system

2013-01-12 Thread John Hupp
On 1/12/2013 10:27 AM, Chris Green wrote: I have a Lubuntu 12.10 system where, for some reason, a user can't run nm-tool:- chris@revo:/etc/dbus-1/system.d$ nm-tool ** (process:1618): WARNING **: Could not initialize NMClient /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager: Rejected send message, 2 m

User can't run nm-tool on 12.10 system

2013-01-12 Thread Chris Green
I have a Lubuntu 12.10 system where, for some reason, a user can't run nm-tool:- chris@revo:/etc/dbus-1/system.d$ nm-tool ** (process:1618): WARNING **: Could not initialize NMClient /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager: Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.