[gentoo-user] Using KDE networkmanagement applet with systemd??

[Robert Walker]

Hi all,
I'm wondering if it is possible to get the KDE network management
(system tray) applet to work properly on my laptop. I'm using the Gentoo
systemd overlay and KDE 4.9.5.

$ emerge -pv networkmanager network management
[ebuild R ~] net-misc/networkmanager-0.9.6.4-r1 USE="avahi dhcpcd doc
gnutls introspection modemmanager ppp systemd wext -bluetooth
-connection-sharing -consolekit -dhclient -nss -resolvconf -vala -wimax"
0 kB
[ebuild R ~] kde-misc/network management-0.9.0.6:4 USE="(-aqua) -debug"
LINGUAS="-ar -ca -cs -da -de -el -es -et -fa -fi -fr -ga -hu -it -ja -kk
-km -lt -nb -nds -nl -nn -pl -pt -pt_BR -ro -ru -se -sk -sr
-***@ijekavian -***@ijekavianlatin -***@latin -sv -tr -uk -zh_TW" 1,298 kB

Currently the tray applet starts but can't "see" the systemd enabled
NetworkManager service - the service is definitely working though...
$ systemctl status NetworkManager.service
NetworkManager.service - Network Manager
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib64/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service; enabled)
Active: active (running) since Mon 2013-02-04 10:35:19 GMT; 43min ago
Main PID: 4849 (NetworkManager)
CGroup: name=systemd:/system/NetworkManager.service
├─4849 /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon
└─4908 /sbin/dhcpcd -B -K -L -G -c /usr/libexec/nm-dhcp-client.action eth0

I click on the KDE network management system tray icon and the popup
window says "Network Manager is not working. Please start it."

Clearly should work - as it does on ARCH, Chakra, OpenSUSE, Mageia and
Rosa distros!! Not really a big deal but it would be nice to fix it :-)

Any thoughts??

Thanks
Bob

[João Matos]

Post by Robert Walker
Hi all,
I'm wondering if it is possible to get the KDE network management
(system tray) applet to work properly on my laptop. I'm using the Gentoo
systemd overlay and KDE 4.9.5.
$ emerge -pv networkmanager network management
[ebuild R ~] net-misc/networkmanager-0.9.6.4-r1 USE="avahi dhcpcd doc
gnutls introspection modemmanager ppp systemd wext -bluetooth
-connection-sharing -consolekit -dhclient -nss -resolvconf -vala -wimax"
0 kB
[ebuild R ~] kde-misc/network management-0.9.0.6:4 USE="(-aqua) -debug"
LINGUAS="-ar -ca -cs -da -de -el -es -et -fa -fi -fr -ga -hu -it -ja -kk
-km -lt -nb -nds -nl -nn -pl -pt -pt_BR -ro -ru -se -sk -sr
Currently the tray applet starts but can't "see" the systemd enabled
NetworkManager service - the service is definitely working though...
$ systemctl status NetworkManager.service
NetworkManager.service - Network Manager
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib64/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service; enabled)
Active: active (running) since Mon 2013-02-04 10:35:19 GMT; 43min ago
Main PID: 4849 (NetworkManager)
CGroup: name=systemd:/system/NetworkManager.service
├─4849 /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon
└─4908 /sbin/dhcpcd -B -K -L -G -c /usr/libexec/nm-dhcp-client.action eth0
I click on the KDE network management system tray icon and the popup
window says "Network Manager is not working. Please start it."
Clearly should work - as it does on ARCH, Chakra, OpenSUSE, Mageia and
Rosa distros!! Not really a big deal but it would be nice to fix it :-)
Any thoughts??
Thanks
Bob

Here it is working pretty well, and I'm not using any overlay, just the
useflag "systemd". I had a problem recently, but it was solved when I
filled this bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454444 .

When I started using systemd, I had a similar problem. It was something
related with pam autentication, that I don't remember, but it surely worth
to search a little about.

In fact, I was connected to the Internet, using networkmanagement, but I
had this problem with the tray icon.