Hi Bill! Anno domini 2024 Mon, 29 Jan 08:35:15 -0800 William Morder via tde-users scripsit: > > Okay, so I appear to have internet again, more or less, but now there's > something odd happening with tdenetworkmanager. > > For the past day or so, since sometime Sunday evening, I have not been able to > use internet at all. I keep checking the connection, try out the installation > image on a flash drive, just to see if networks are showing up there, but > nothing conclusive. > > Then it occurred to me to start tdenetworkmanager as root, and presto! I can > configure it to work, and everything is back to normal; except, I cannot > close down the root version of tdenetworkmanager, then return to the non-root > version. The non-root tdenetworkmanager, just myself as user, still will not > connect. The networks show up, but once I try to connect, they disappear, and > I cannot get on at all. > > This does not seem right. > > Awhile back I resolved some connectivity issues (been meaning to mention this, > but it's an old thread now); I booted into my backup desktop, xfce, started > xfce as root, set my local network so that I did not connect automatically, > then got out of root, and everything since then ran fine. > > I returned to my Trinity desktop, and did not think about xfce again, until I > had to do some reinstallation. Until these past two weeks, and now again the > past day or so, I have not had any network issues. > > Everything has worked just fine, until we had flooding in our building, and > internet was out for nearly two weeks past, up until sometime Friday night or > Saturday. Then I had a day or so of my usual internet, then a couple days > past where I have these problems just described above. > > And now this: only able to use the tdenetworkmanager as root. Also, it seems I > cannot install or use wicd, which is my usual backup. > > Does any of this make any sense? Am I losing my mind, or is it the machines > that are making me crazy? Could you check if your user is in the "netdev" and "dialout" group? And the do a "chown $USER $HOME -R" as I suspect some files don't belog to you any more :) And you could try "nmtui" and/or "nmcli" and check if it's not a tdenetworkmanager problem. Nik > > Bill > > > ____________________________________________________ > tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
