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siva.devel

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Registered: 2011-12-01

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Configs are not getting saved in nm-applet

I faced a strange nm-applet issue. Lan was configured with DHCP and I wanted to configure it with Static IP. I opened nm-applet->edit connections and made the required modifications, pressed save. It gets saved without any problem. I closed the application, restart the connection. But when I checked the ip, the old value is still there. I opened the Nm-applet and the config I just saved is not there. I tried the same for couple of times but it did not work.

Then I killed the running nm-applet, ran the nm-applet with sudo and now the changes I make with edit connections are properly reflected. I guess there should be a admin privilege popup that should given when we press save. I remember seeing that in debian.

./Siva

Last edited by siva.devel (2011-12-24 08:13:31)

rhowaldt

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Registered: 2011-03-09

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Re: Configs are not getting saved in nm-applet

i think i had the same problem with Network Manager. i never really bothered to figure out the how and why, just removed Network Manager from my system and started doing the /etc/network/interfaces manually. read here: http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … upplicant/

Tunafish

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Registered: 2010-03-07

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Re: Configs are not getting saved in nm-applet

What i do is
run
sudo nm-connection-editor
from terminal
make changes
and they'll be saved

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siva.devel

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Registered: 2011-12-01

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Re: Configs are not getting saved in nm-applet

The way it works in Debian/Ubuntu is to pop a admin privilege window to ask for password before saving - I think that is the expected behavior here too. I think it need to corrected in the release itself.

As for work around the above answers holds good .