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[JB]

Adam Williamson <awilliam <at> redhat.com> writes:

> ... 
> I'm not sure, I admit I didn't actually check to see what provides those
> dbus services, nor what error you get from dbus if you try to talk to a
> service that's defined but whose provider isn't actually running at the
> time :

I tested Richard's case.
In console terminal:
# chkconfig --list NetworkManager
NetworkManager 	0:off	1:off	2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
# /etc/inet.d/NetworkManager stop

$ startx
nm-applet started; no nm-applet icon in a panel.
$ ps aux |grep -i networkmanager
$ ps aux |grep -i nm-applet
jb       31469  0.0  0.4 174292 10032 ?        Sl   01:31   0:00 nm-applet
--sm-disable

$ cat .startx.log
...
** (nm-applet:31469): WARNING **: get_all_cb: couldn't retrieve system settings 
properties: (2) The name org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSystemSettings was not pr
ovided by any .service files.

** (nm-applet:31469): WARNING **: fetch_connections_done: error fetching system
connections: (2) The name org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSystemSettings was not
provided by any .service files.
...

JB