GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 589639
Network Manager cannot access system wide connection settings
Last modified: 2010-04-10 19:59:00 UTC
Please describe the problem: Hi, I am using Network Manager on several machines with Ubuntu 9.04. On some (not all) of these machines a certain problem occurs: When setting a connection to system wide availability, a file is generated in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections as expected, but then neither Network Manager nor nm-connection-editor can see this connection. Even when querying dbus for network connection settings with a small ruby script it does not find those connections. On the machines where it works it lists the existing connections, while on the machines where it does not work it gets an empty list from dbus. Unfortunately there is no point to start with for debugging. Docs don't tell where to start debugging, source code comments are as good as not existing and the software structure is complex. No way to see why the nm-system-settings daemon does find the connections on some of my machines and doesn't on others. Steps to reproduce: 1. no idea how to reproduce, not even removing and reinstalling the software helps 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Does this happen every time? On the machines where it does not work, it never works. Other information:
Created attachment 139173 [details] ruby script I use for testing on some machines it lists the know connections, on others it doesn't (empty list of connections although they exist in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections)
Any chance you can attach one of the files that fails to be found? Does it get found if you 'killall -TERM nm-system-settings' ?
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for. Thanks!