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Getting NetworkManager Back After Running As Root

Asked by Jonathan Anderson

While working on an X problem, I ran a session (including KNetworkManager) as root. Now when I turn my PC on, KNetworkManager shows a "connected via Ethernet" icon, but the network doesn't actually work.

When I right-click this icon, the "Wired Networks" section of the context menu is not there.

If I hover over the icon, the tooltip says "Manual network configuration".

In order to get things working, I have to right-click, click "Manual configuration", enter my password (never used to have to do *that* before), clock on eth0, click "Disable interface" and then "Enable interface".

Is there a file somewhere that now belongs to root which shouldn't? If so, I'd really, really like to chmod it like it's supposed to be.

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Best Jonathan Anderson (jonathan-anderson) said : 		#1

Fixed... I had to log in via GNOME (KNetworkManager doesn't support this yet), click 'Properties' for the wired network and select 'Enable Roaming Mode'. Now NetworkManager seems to behave more sensibly.

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Purnank Harjivanbhai Ghumalia (purnank) said : 		#2

you can use sudo network-admin to start the required utility in Gnome.