Bug 474965

Summary:	Network Manager Not Working on Non-root accounts
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.1	Reporter:	Jim Omura <jimomura>
Component:	Mobile Devices	Assignee:	Will Stephenson <wstephenson>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86
OS:	openSUSE 11.1
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Description Jim Omura 2009-02-11 21:59:32 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009012700 SUSE/3.0.6-0.1 Firefox/3.0.6

As of today's updates I can use the Network Manager (which is apparently KDE3 knetworkmanager) for WiFi in the "root" account to connect to my router.  However, if I use a non-root account, nothing happens when I click on the icon.

I do not know whether Ethernet is working.  I will eventually get around to testing that as well.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Boot the computer
2.  Login as "root" or as "non-root"
3.  Click on Network Manager in Panel (or elsewhere).
Actual Results:  
If "non-root", then nothing happens.
If "root" then select router, "connect and save", and it works.


Expected Results:  
Either Network Manager is not supposed to work for "non-root" accounts, (in which case I should get a message window telling me so), or I should be able to connect.

Acer Aspire One.

Note regarding severity:  This is debatable.  In my case, I consider being limited to using the "root" account for Internet to be a severe problem if the work I do on the computer is sensitive (ie. if security is an issue).  However, in this case, I am not using this computer for critical/secure communication.  I can literally put this computer aside and use another if I need security.  For other people, it can be very important. . . .

Comment 1 Stephan Binner 2009-02-15 13:46:49 UTC

> which is apparently KDE3 knetworkmanager

So you have NetworkManager-kde but not NetworkManager-kde4 package installed?

Comment 2 Jim Omura 2009-02-16 17:46:39 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> > which is apparently KDE3 knetworkmanager
> 
> So you have NetworkManager-kde but not NetworkManager-kde4 package installed?

First, be sure to ignore the information at the top of my original report.  It was generated automatically when I created the report, but I created the report on a different computer than the one I am referring to in this report.

The installation was basically an "all defaults" installation using the 11.1 KDE4 LiveCD image, however, checking the files using YaST2 "Software Manager" there is only 1 "Network Manager" type of program installed.  It appears to be a KDE3 program because that is where it is located, but it uses KDE3 and KDE4 libraries.  The following is a partial file list:

NetworkManager-kde-0.7r848570-23.1 - KNetworkManager application for use with NetworkManager

/etc/dbus-1/system.d/knetworkmanager.conf
/opt/kde3/bin/knetworkmanager
/opt/kde3/env
. . .

Comment 3 Christian Zoz 2009-07-02 09:46:53 UTC

KNetworkManager for KDE3 is not maintained any longer. Therefore I resolve all bugs that are still open as WONTFIX without looking at each single bug report.
If this bug deals already with KDE4 and is still in progress, then please apologize the mistake and feel free to reopen it.