Bug 694334
| Summary: | nm-connection-editor Crash | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | David Le Sage <dlesage> |
| Component: | NetworkManager | Assignee: | Dan Williams <dcbw> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 15 | CC: | dcbw, dekela, ekanter, jklimes, michael |
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| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2012-08-07 15:57:43 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
David Le Sage
2011-04-07 01:41:11 UTC
I can confirm this bug also when trying to add Wireless or any other task. Looks to be related to SELinux. Any workaround? That's not a problem of nm-connection-editor itself, rather a more general issue (or bad invocation) of desktop apps. Nowadays, (not only) desktop application extensively use D-Bus. And they make use of DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS environment variable to find out where the session bus is. When you run 'su', you change user to root, but all environment variables (including DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS) are inherited from the shell, where you run 'su'. That's why applications executed after the 'su' see and use DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS of the previous user, which is not correct. So the solution is to run 'su -' or 'su -l', which will invoke login shell and as a result clears environment. Or it's possible to 'unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS'. Example: user $ su root # unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS root # gnome-calculator By the way, there is no need to run nm-connection-editor as root unless you really want to use that account (which you probably shouldn't). Links: - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gconf/+bug/336660/comments/3 - info su - man dbus-launch *** Bug 714262 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** is it by design that nm-connection-editor is read only if launched by a user? all previous Fedora releases did not have this "feature". no new connection like vpn for example can be created unless started by a root user. There's no such "feature". Have you read comment #2? It's a bad invocation. You should run "su -" instead of "su" In Fedora 14 I was able to modify WI-FI connection routing table (stored in ~/.gconf/system/networking/connections/*/ipv4/%gconf.xml) by selecting edit connection from node manager icon. In Fedora 15 the same dialog only accessible if nm-connection-editor started as root after "su -". Let me repeat my question. Is the change above a new GNOME 3 "feature"? Why would changing a user owned file requires root access? You should be able edit connections as normal user. Running editor via Applications->Other->Network Connections (Gnome Shell) or in terminal nm-connection-editor. It's not a new feature and you do not need run the editor as root. So, there are probably some permission issues. But your use case a bit different from this bug. Please, open a new bug and describe your case and your problems there. What do you see in the editor - grayed Edit button? And include any relevant information, as NetworkManager, Gnome versions, etc. There's a change in F15 in that connections are not any more stored in gconf via client applets, but they are all managed by NM itself (and stored in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-*, route-*, keys-* or /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/). However, it doesn't matter from user perspective and editing via the editor is available for the normal logged user without root access. This message is a notice that Fedora 15 is now at end of life. Fedora has stopped maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 15. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At this time, all open bugs with a Fedora 'version' of '15' have been closed as WONTFIX. (Please note: Our normal process is to give advanced warning of this occurring, but we forgot to do that. A thousand apologies.) Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, feel free to reopen this bug and simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we were unable to fix it before Fedora 15 reached end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged to click on "Clone This Bug" (top right of this page) and open it against that version of Fedora. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. The process we are following is described here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping |