[SOLVED]Network Manager Applet and nmcli failing after GCC upgrade

Hi All,
So I went to update my system today and there were only like 8 or 9 updates. Like many other people I had an issue with gcc and pacman. To fix this I ran
pacman -S gcc
Then I ran:
pacman -Su
which updated pacman itself. On reboot though I noticed network manager applet was unable to find any of my network devices despite the fact that network manager was running and I had an IP address. I killed nm-applet and re-ran it and it spewed errors about not being able to connect to network manager. I tried running nmcli and it did the same thing. However, when I run nmcli as root it works. Looking at the arch wiki they suggest you be a part of the wheel and network group which I made sure I was. Everything was working up until I ran those two updates though. Anyone else have this happen or have any idea what is wrong?
Thanks,
Hemmar
EDIT: Never mind - a patch was released for consolekit which fixes the problem.
Last edited by hemmar (2012-04-13 00:36:49)

Hi guz46
I have already tried removing the ! and the same thing happened ... but I realised today that I was being automatically connected to "Auto eth0" despite there being no cable present. When automatic connection was disabled on "Auto eth0" my 3G connection (ppp0) connected fine.
Could you clarify that the preferred set-up in the /etc/rc.conf for the interfaces is without the !. The Wiki for networkmanager says to disable them, but then states that some may need to be reenabled with no explanation. The purpose of this confuses me!
Thanks for you help anyways,
Scott
EDIT:
I appear to have fixed my problem with the auto connection on the various interfaces by updating my /etc/rc.conf file to:
#Static IP example
#eth0="dhcp"
ppp0="dhcp"
wlan0="dhcp"
eth0="dhcp"
INTERFACES=(ppp0 wlan0 eth0)
Thus ensuring that I can connect in order of preference.
Last edited by ScottArch (2009-11-03 18:48:47)

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faviouz wrote:
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It worked excellently! I also added networkmanager to the daemons array and it loads on boot now, which is great.
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Last edited by Padfoot (2012-04-13 23:47:55)

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For those using the arch repo kernel the next release will solve this issue. So I suggest waiting for this (no more than a few days) and use the LTS kernel in the meantime (or using a fixed ath9k module if already built).
Thanks for that heiko. I thought that would be the case, hence I just waited.
Will mark this as solved.
Cheers.

[SOLVED] ((none)) login/tty and no keyboard after last upgrade?

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Last edited by vikrang (2011-04-29 10:11:02)

vikrang wrote:1. What should I install for KDE backend? --- Gnome Networkmanager or Knetworkmanager (Is the version for 4.4 & above supported?, wiki is silent on this)?
2. For Frontend should I install the Plasma widget or the GNOME applet?
3. If backend is GNOME network manager will it work with KDE plasma widget (front end) ?
4. In /etc/rc.conf , in "DAEMONS = " should I give "knetworkmanager" or "networkmanager" If I install the KDE version?
1. there is just one, networkmanager. network-manager-applet and kdeplasma-applets-networkmanagement are just front-ends to networkmanager.
2. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ne … nager#KDE4 , but https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ne … ager#GNOME will work too. I use network-manager-applet on KDE 'cause the KDE front-end can't set a system connection.
3. I won't even bother to answer to this.
4. networkmanager!!!
vikrang wrote:I have also enabled dhcpc (automatic)...So it shld fetch an IP address....dunno what the problem is..
if you are using networkmanager you must the networkmanager daemon, not network. replace network with networkmanager in rc.conf in DAEMONS array.
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proxima_centauri wrote:I already tryed downgrading both hal and back to gnome-network-manger.
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<match key="volume.fstype" string="ntfs">
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the original post is at http://www.linuxsir.org/bbs/thread344125.html. it's in chinese.
hope this works.

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# USELVM="no"
# Network
# interface=eth0
# address=
# netmask=
# gateway=
My /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pkla wrote:Identity=unix-group:network
Action=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.*
ResultAny=yes
ResultInactive=no
ResultActive=yes
Last edited by TriforceLZG (2012-09-02 13:43:23)

I found the solution, I had to install a Display Manager. Now everything is fine.

Weird Network-manager-applet icon

I have installed network-manager-applet 0.9.8.8-1 and a weird icon is displayed: a question mark
What does it mean?

toni wrote:
Inxsible wrote:its not connected to any network ?
I am connected correctly and I have Internet connection without problems but I do not know why is it showing a question mark...
Ok, but you didn't mention that in your first post and sadly, I cannot read minds.
In any case, its a bug as has been posted above.

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