Re: NetworkManager doesn't "Connect automatically"

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> skribis:

> I tried following polkit's example.  These patches enable me to build
> network-manager with elogind, but when I reconfigure my system using the
> new network-manager package, NetworkManager still fails to automatically
> connect (like before, there are no error messages that I can find).
>
> I suspect I didn't replace the right "systemd" references, but it's hard
> to say.  A second pair of eyes on this would be very helpful!

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> From 775e0f0c18fb2bcfc297c92184c54e81fb2db79d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 00:44:54 -0800
> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] gnome: Enable session tracking in network-manager.
>
> * gnu/packages/gnome.scm (network-manager): Add configuration options
>   "--with-systemd-logind=yes" (so we can use elogind to track login sessions)
>   and "--with-consolekit=no" (so we don't use consolekit to track sessions,
>   since it isn't packaged yet).  Add elogind as an input, and add a snippet to
>   replace some references to systemd with elogind.

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> From d6de68789959bd657c5697c717201d5bcdaf2fcf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 00:01:26 -0800
> Subject: [PATCH 2/2] gnome: Enable NetworkManager in gnome-settings-daemon.
>
> * gnu/packages/gnome.scm (gnome-settings-daemon): remove the configure option
>   "--disable-network-manager".  Add network-manager as an input.

Following Andy’s advice I committed both with slightly-tweaked commit
logs.  That’ll give lurkers out there an incentive to give it a try.
;-)

Thank you Chris!

Ludo’.