[arch-general] kdeplasma-applets-networkmanagement: NetworkManager is not running. Please start it.

Kaushal M kshlmster at gmail.com
Tue Aug 21 10:59:17 EDT 2012


I use systemd. NM is running and I have a connection. I am a member of the
network group, but I don't have any group called networkmanager.
Its only that all the network manager tools (KDE applet, gnome applet,
nmcli) fail to communicate with networkmanager.
 On 21 Aug 2012 19:23, "Martin Zecher" <mzecher at gmail.com> wrote:

> How is your box configured? (initscript or systemd, KDM, etc)
>
> In which groups is your user? You shall be in network and networkmanager
> groups.
>
> Is networkmanager running? Does it connect?
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 2:29 AM, Kaushal M <kshlmster at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm facing the same problem, but the solution doesn't seem to be working
> > for me.
> > I had a *.pacnew only for login in /etc/pam.d, which I renamed. But still
> > the applet refuses to work for me. :(
> >
> > Any other ideas?
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 7:12 AM, C Anthony Risinger <anthony at xtfx.me>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Martin Zecher <mzecher at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > You're a genius. Not the Mac one, of course.
> > >
> > > heh, thanks :-)
> > >
> > > > Where did you get that
> > > > info? I didn't notice any change in pam at all...
> > >
> > > why from my gigantic, bulbous brain of course! where else?!
> > >
> > > nah i just remembered looking over that update awhile back. the
> > > symptoms you described sounded like a PAM problem (running but
> > > invisible until restarted from within the session), like sessions were
> > > not being setup properly (in particular, environ vars like dbus socket
> > > address, etc).
> > >
> > > also the PAM entries for systemd were only added sometime in the last
> > > year.  PAM is one of those things you don't really [need to] think
> > > about :-) so it's easy to skip over.
> > >
> > > > By the way, I
> > > > replaced /etc/pam.d/kde, kde-np, login and passwd with the
> > > > corresponding .pacnew ones and that fixed the problem.
> > >
> > > yeah that sounds about right ... nice, i'm glad it's all working for
> you
> > > now.
> > >
> > > > Arch's community is the best.
> > >
> > > i concur, good sir.
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > C Anthony
> > >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Martin
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