Re: How do I fix broken NM gconf entries?

[Alex Janssen <alex ourwoods org>]

Unit3 said the following on 07/15/2007 04:45 PM:
> Hi,
>
> Somehow, my networkmanager setup has gotten seriously thrashed. The
> system/networking folder is entirely missing from ~/.gconf, and now
> network manager gets stuck. From syslog, it gets to this point, and step
> 5 never completes:
>
> Jul 15 13:42:06 RoH NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth1) Stage 4 of
> 5 (IP Configure Get) complete.
> Jul 15 13:42:06 RoH NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth1) Stage 5 of
> 5 (IP Configure Commit) started...
>
> I assume this is because it has no writeable gconf area to save the
> network configuration into. Because of this, nm-applet just sits in the
> notification area spinning forever. It incorrectly reports that the
> network isn't quite setup to any app that requests network status via
> dbus. Worse, once I've selected an AP, I can't select any other one,
> because NM is waiting for step 5 to complete before doing anything else.
>
> I'm not sure what I did to get it to this state, but does anyone have
> any ideas how to fix it? I can't seem to find any NM schema or gconf
> tree to import on my system, so I'm not sure where to get the missing
> gconf info to make NM happy.
>
> Thanks!
> Graeme
>   
Did you try just recreating the directories?
i.e.; .gconf/system/networking/wireless/networks

Alex


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