kde-plasma-nm disabled

[Neal Becker]

Ed Greshko wrote:

> On 01/07/14 23:45, Neal Becker wrote:
>> Network is working fine, with a wired enet.  I probably disabled nm a long
>> time
>> ago.  Now I want to enable it (so I can try bridge).
>>
>> I have kde-plasma-nm-0.9.3.2-1.fc20.x86_64, but
>> on my desktop, the net icon has a red X.  If I try to edit connections/add
>> connection, I don't see any wired interface names under 'restrict
>> connection'. This suggests something's wrong - it's not learning the names of
>> the interfaces.
>>
>> In /var/log/messages I see:
>>
>> Jan  7 10:27:34 nbecker7 dbus[624]: [system] Rejected send message, 3 matched
>> rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.4740" (uid=1000 pid=8349
>> comm="/usr/bin/kde-nm-connection-editor ")
>> interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="Get" error name="(unset)"
>> requested_reply="0" destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" (uid=0
>> pid=602 comm="/usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon ")
>>
>> Any idea how to proceed?  On my laptop with working NM, if I go to the edit
>> connections I see a list of several interfaces
> 
> Since you don't recall how you disabled network manager....
> 
> What does ...
> 
> systemctl status NetworkManager.service   return?
> 
> and ...
> 
> In your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts     Whatever interface file...  Do you
> have a NM_CONTROLLED= line?
> 
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sudo systemctl status NetworkManager
 
NetworkManager.service - Network Manager
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service; enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Mon 2013-12-23 10:15:30 EST; 2 weeks 1 days 
ago
 Main PID: 602 (NetworkManager)
   CGroup: /system.slice/NetworkManager.service
             602 /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon
             686 /sbin/dhclient -d -sf /usr/libexec/nm-dhcp-helper -pf /var/r...

Jan 08 07:27:38 nbecker7 NetworkManager[602]: <info>   hostname 'nbecker7'
Jan 08 07:27:38 nbecker7 NetworkManager[602]: <info>   nameserver '10.33.41.30'
Jan 08 07:27:38 nbecker7 NetworkManager[602]: <info>   domain name 'hughes.com'
Jan 08 07:27:38 nbecker7 NetworkManager[602]: <info>   domain search 'hughes...'
Jan 08 07:27:38 nbecker7 NetworkManager[602]: <info>   domain search 'hns.com.'
Jan 08 07:27:38 nbecker7 NetworkManager[602]: <info>   domain search 'md.hns...'
Jan 08 07:27:38 nbecker7 NetworkManager[602]: <info>   domain search 'md.hns...'
Jan 08 07:27:38 nbecker7 NetworkManager[602]: <info>   domain search 'ca.hns...'
Jan 08 07:27:38 nbecker7 NetworkManager[602]: <info>   domain search 'backup...'
Jan 08 07:27:38 nbecker7 NetworkManager[602]: bound to 10.32.112.225 -- rene....
Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.
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But why does NM not show any interfaces, if I try to add?  That tells me 
something isn't working.

ifcfg-em1 does NOT have NM_CONTROLLED line