GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 603029
"Insufficient privileges" bug
Last modified: 2009-12-08 19:11:22 UTC
Ubuntu 9.10, kernel version 2.6.31-14-generic NetworkManager Applet 0.7.996 Started happening after an upgrade from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 1. Old connections did not work - just tried, tried and then disconnected. Very similar to when you have no permissions to use a connection. If you try to edit connection, it said "Insufficient privileges". If you tried to create new connections, it would try to connect, ask for a password and say "Insufficient privileges" again. Had to install NM from daily builds, but it helped only partially - old connections still did not work, so I had to delete them, new connections now work, but in a broken manner, as explained further. 2. When you create a DSL connection, if you check the Allow all users option, the connection will not work. You will also not be able to edit this connection as it will ask you for a password and although you enter the correct password will keep saying "Insufficient privileges" and crash the window. 3. If you do not check the Allow all users checkbox, the connection will work, but after a couple of days the connection will not work again, behaving as if you have no permission to use it. All your attempts to login prompt a password screen and when you enter the password, NM window will crash and it will say "Insufficient privileges". The workaround is to delete the connection through Edit Connections and create a new one from scratch. Then in a couple of days same thing happens. Since it does not happen all the time, I have difficulty in getting the logs myself. Also, I am not very good with the terminal and to be honest when it happened again yesterday I simply did not know what commands to enter to look up the logs. However, several people have reported this earlier, here is a link to their logs, which seem to be the same problem I have. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-applet/+bug/462944 - this report has logs This is a duplicate with logs and txt files. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-applet/+bug/457109 Here is another one: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/476204
*** Bug 600455 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Turns out this is due to older PolicyKit; PK 0.95 and later do not have this problem. It's been fixed in the connection editor in these commits: 3325489ad60cfb4aac41612d8a7ed2e45c3726c8 325ec4ffd1ed19506c9e9896436f3ee7c1b82cde b71e69bf8f361d1064a2624c7a74fb09cb961e49