[arch-general] kdeplasma-applets-networkmanagement: NetworkManager is not running. Please start it.

[Kaushal M]

I'm facing the same problem, but the solution doesn't seem to be working
for me.
I had a *.pacnew only for login in /etc/pam.d, which I renamed. But still
the applet refuses to work for me. :(

Any other ideas?

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 7:12 AM, C Anthony Risinger <anthony at xtfx.me> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Martin Zecher <mzecher at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > You're a genius. Not the Mac one, of course.
>
> heh, thanks :-)
>
> > Where did you get that
> > info? I didn't notice any change in pam at all...
>
> why from my gigantic, bulbous brain of course! where else?!
>
> nah i just remembered looking over that update awhile back. the
> symptoms you described sounded like a PAM problem (running but
> invisible until restarted from within the session), like sessions were
> not being setup properly (in particular, environ vars like dbus socket
> address, etc).
>
> also the PAM entries for systemd were only added sometime in the last
> year.  PAM is one of those things you don't really [need to] think
> about :-) so it's easy to skip over.
>
> > By the way, I
> > replaced /etc/pam.d/kde, kde-np, login and passwd with the
> > corresponding .pacnew ones and that fixed the problem.
>
> yeah that sounds about right ... nice, i'm glad it's all working for you
> now.
>
> > Arch's community is the best.
>
> i concur, good sir.
>
> --
>
> C Anthony
>