simultaneous nm-applet

[Rick Stevens]

Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> People,
> 
> Is nm-applet supposed to work in two users logged at the same time?
> If it is, I have a problem here because only the first user logged in have
> the applet, the others get a error like this:
> 
> [brunojcm at brunojcm-laptop ~]$ nm-applet
> ** (nm-applet:6195): WARNING **: <WARN>  request_name(): Could not acquire
> the session service as it is already taken.  Return: 3
> ** (nm-applet:6195): WARNING **: <WARN>  constructor(): Couldn't initialize
> the D-Bus manager.
> 
> Is it a bug?

Not really.  NM is fired up for the first desktop user and sets the
machine's IP address (either static or via DHCP).  If you have multiple
simultaneous desktop users (I'm assuming they're coming in over vnc or
something), then the second and subsequent simultaneous users will get
that error.  The machine has an IP already, there's no need to do it again.

If you're going to have multiple desktop users, I'd remove "Network
Manager" from the users' start up programs (under Gnome:
System->Preferences->Startup Applications) and use the old-style
/etc/rc.d/init.d/network startup instead.
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