Something I updated today or recently caused nm-applet to no longer work. It was disappearing from my panel, but was apparently trying to run. I was getting syslogs like this:
May 3 23:54:28 wrk-240-gr kernel: [ 840.493921] wlan0: authenticated May 3 23:54:28 wrk-240-gr kernel: [ 840.493928] wlan0: associate with AP 00:1d:73:18:12:fc May 3 23:54:28 wrk-240-gr kernel: [ 840.496123] wlan0: RX ReassocResp from 00:1d:73:18:12:fc (capab=0x401 status=0 aid=2) May 3 23:54:28 wrk-240-gr kernel: [ 840.496130] wlan0: associated May 3 23:54:28 wrk-240-gr kernel: [ 840.497211] wlan0: disassociating by local choice (reason=3) May 3 23:54:28 wrk-240-gr wpa_supplicant[2066]: No network configuration found for the current AP
First it hung when awesomewm's rc.lua tried to launch it via:
os.execute("nm-applet &")
So I killed that process and tried starting it manually... major hangs! First I was getting this:
** (process:3564): WARNING **: error: failed to read connections from org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings: The name org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings was not provided by any .service files
Then I figured out that nm-applet now uses consolekit (or policykit?) to authenticate. I had previously held back consolekit from upgrading so I manually upgraded it, as well as network-manager-gnome.
This seemed to take me a little further, as when I'd try manually launching nm-applet, it would eventually respond with this notice:
secret service operation failed: Activation of org.freedesktop.secrets timed out
OK, well, I found this file /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.secrets.service:
[D-BUS Service] Name=org.freedesktop.secrets Exec=/usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --start --foreground --components=secrets
So I took a shot in the dark and started gnome-keyring-daemon manually, and then when I tried nm-applet, it prompted me for a password. Sweet!
What next? I decided to start gnome-keyring-daemon via awesome's rc.lua:
#ck-launch-session #gnome-settings-daemon & gnome-keyring-daemon & #gnome-power-manager & set -a . /etc/environment wmname LG3D xsetroot -cursor_name dmz exec awesome
After that, at least when I logged in, it would prompt me to unlock the default keychain. Thankfully, when I expanded the details section, I was able to click a box that allowed me to always unlock that keychain upon login.
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