User can't run nm-tool on 12.10 system

[John Hupp]

On 1/12/2013 10:27 AM, Chris Green wrote:
> I have a Lubuntu 12.10 system where, for some reason, a user can't run
> nm-tool:-
>
>      chris at revo:/etc/dbus-1/system.d$ nm-tool
>
>      ** (process:1618): WARNING **: Could not initialize NMClient /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager: Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.16" (uid=1000 pid=1618 comm="nm-tool ") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" (uid=0 pid=945 comm="NetworkManager ")
>
>      NetworkManager Tool
>
>      State: unknown
>
>
>      ** (process:1618): WARNING **: error: could not connect to NetworkManager
>
>
> However it works fine when run as the root user.
>
> A further symptom of the same thing (I think) is that the Network Manager applet is
> non-functional, the icon is there on the panel but it just tells me "Network Manager
> is not running...".  However Network Manager is running and I do have an internet
> connection.
>
>

Did you configure the network using Network Manager or editing 
/etc/network/interfaces?  If the latter then my experience is that 
Network Manager won't work right.
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