Re: PS Re: Something bollixing packagekit
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 07:16:23PM +0000, Beartooth wrote:
On Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:30:03 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> If it *does* persist, check your PK configuration perhaps?
>
> [paul@salma ~]$ grep UseNetworkManager /etc/PackageKit/PackageKit.conf
> UseNetworkManager=true
I get the same, after I c&p the grep command to a prompt.
> (The default configuration is "true," by the way.) If PK is supposed to
> be using NetworkManager for managing your network connection and you
> disable a network connection in NM without telling it that you're
> managing it elsewhere, it may tell other apps that no network exists.
The problem exists only on this one machine. I thought I had
disabled NM some time ago in system-config-services; maybe some reboot
restarted it??
You can check that:
$ su -c '/sbin/chkconfig --list NetworkManager'
If you did, you probably want to change that PK configuration option
above to "false."
> You can set manual configurations in NetworkManager, or if you
set them
> with system-config-network, you can mark them as not to be managed by
> NetworkManager, and PK's heuristics should just do the right thing.
I have seen those markings somewhere, but don't find them now.
According to gedit, nm-system-settings.conf contains only
No need to dig in text files, you can just use the System >
Administration > Network tool and turn off the "Managed by
NetworkManager" option for the interface, and mark it to start by
default at boot time.
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