Re: Network Manager Service

[ng0]

Chris Marusich <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> ISTR NetworkManager didn’t quite work out of the box, so your feedback,
>> positive or negative, will be welcome!
>
> I just tried modifying my system's services as follows (basically), and
> Network Manager didn't quite work for me (I did 'guix pull' first):
>
> (define %modified-desktop-services
>   (cons (network-manager-service)
>         (remove (lambda (service)
>                   (eq? wicd-service-type (service-kind service)))
>                 %desktop-services)))
>
>
> When I rebooted, I observed the following:
>
> * In the GNOME Control Center, when I click on Network, I see
>   information about Network Manager.  This is good.
>   
> * However, Network Manager did NOT display any wireless networks.  This
>   is not what I expected; I expected it to find my wireless network.
>
> I found NetworkManager errors like the following in /var/log/messages,
> which seems suspicious:
>
> error poking ModemManager: 
> GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name 
> org.freedesktop.ModemManager1 was not provided by any .service files
> error requesting auth for
> org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.checkpoint-rollback:
> Authorization check failed: Action
> org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.checkpoint-rollback is not
> registered

Could be that we build NetworkManager without the ModemManager
component. This is harmless.

The errors below: When I used Gentoo, you had to add a rule for
that, which might or might not be what is needed here but I have
not tried this for GuixSD.
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/NetworkManager

> error requesting auth for 
> org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-network: Authorization check 
> failed: Action org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-network is not 
> registered
> error requesting auth for 
> org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-statistics: Authorization check 
> failed: Action org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-statistics is 
> not registered
> error requesting auth for org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-wifi: 
> Authorization check failed: Action 
> org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-wifi is not registered
> error requesting auth for 
> org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-wimax: Authorization check 
> failed: Action org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-wimax is not 
> registered
> error requesting auth for org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-wwan: 
> Authorization check failed: Action 
> org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-wwan is not registered
> error requesting auth for org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.network-control: 
> Authorization check failed: Action 
> org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.network-control is not registered
> error requesting auth for org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.reload: 
> Authorization check failed: Action org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.reload is 
> not registered
> error requesting auth for 
> org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.global-dns: Authorization 
> check failed: Action 
> org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.global-dns is not registered
> error requesting auth for 
> org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.hostname: Authorization check 
> failed: Action org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.hostname is not 
> registered
> error requesting auth for org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.own: 
> Authorization check failed: Action 
> org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.own is not registered
> error requesting auth for 
> org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.system: Authorization check 
> failed: Action org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.system is not 
> registered
> error requesting auth for org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.sleep-wake: 
> Authorization check failed: Action org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.sleep-wake 
> is not registered
> error requesting auth for org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wifi.share.open: 
> Authorization check failed: Action 
> org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wifi.share.open is not registered
> error requesting auth for 
> org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wifi.share.protected: Authorization check 
> failed: Action org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wifi.share.protected is not 
> registered
>
> I wonder if someone else has seen this before?  I briefly searched the
> guix-devel archives, and the debbugs reports, but didn't find anything
> like this.

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