Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1578 mails)

[Will Stephenson <wstephenson@xxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 19 Nov 2011 12:24:17 Kim D. Leyendecker wrote:
> Howdy all,
>
> *Before* reading my mail, please note: openSUSE 11.4 ran perfect on my
> machine, after the upgrade to 12.1, networkmanager doesn't run at all.I
> can't connect to my router anymore (which worked yesterday, even with 12.1).
> The result is a completely angry user, who just wants his sane and working
> 11.4-like system back. Please excuse my offending mail, but I'm boiling
> totally.
>
> My problem:
>
> After the upgrade, NetworkManager doesn't ran anymore. I did some
> searching and fixed the problem. Now, today, I started my machine but NM
> can't connect anymore. It just says something like:
>
> Wait for authorization
>
> On 11.4 it used to be KWallet which asked my a password for NM. With
> 12.1 it's a KDE-su like one.
>
> Does anyone else has the problem? I'm writing from my notebook because
> my workstation isn't connected anymore.
>
> Please, can you help me?

Gah, I wish I'd joined this thread earlier before the flames started. 
This issue is due to SUSE-specific excessively (IMO) strict default 
PolicyKit-1 configuration for NetworkManager, not KDE or GNOME:
 
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716291

Comment #9 gives a workaround that restores the 11.4 behaviour, that I think 
should be the default.

Then everyone else on the thread, please consider how much funner* your Sunday 
email would have been had you checked bugzilla a bit harder before launching 
the 'Report bugs upstream'/'Ask for a refund!'/"In the real world, you'd be 
fired for this"/'KDE sucks!'/'You suck!' Mutally Assured Community Destruction 
missiles.

Will

* for my nonviolent definition of fun.

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SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, 
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