Hi, I've built NetworkManager, but can't get it to start. I was told by a member at the NetworkManager mailing list that the problem is most likely DBUS related. Anyway, I build Network Manager on VectorLinux 5.8 (Slackware 11 derivative). Since Slackware doesn't have support for either DBUS, HAL or PolicyKit, I built these packages myself, following a LinuxFromScratch wiki (CBLFS-Cross), making ajustments where necessary for the packages to work on my system. In short, I build the packages, and made sure that the install script also created a haldaemon and messagebus user/group. When I try to run NetworkManager applet, enetering the "nm-applet" command in a terminal, I get this error: $ nm-applet ** (nm-applet:3811): WARNING **: <WARNING>       nma_dbus_init (): nma_dbus_init() could not acquire its service.  dbus_bus_acquire_service() says: 'Connection ": 1.2" is not allowed to own the service "org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerInfo" due to security policies in the configuration file' ** (nm-applet:3811): WARNING **: <WARNING>       nma_dbus_init (): nma_dbus_init() could not acquire its service.  dbus_bus_acquire_service() says: 'Connection ": 1.2" is not allowed to own the service "org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerInfo" due to security policies in the configuration file' And it just keeps on like that indefinitely. I does certainly look like a policy problem. So I added: <allow own="org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerInfo"/> to /etc/dbus-1/system.conf, just before the end of the  context="default" policy. After that I added my username to the NetworkManager.conf and nm-applet.conf dbus policies. Then, I tried to restart the dbus daemon with /etc/rc.d/rc.dbus restart but it gave this error: Starting system message bus:  /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system Unknown username "*" in message bus configuration file Unknown username "*" in message bus configuration file Strangely enough, using htop, I can see the dbus daemon running, but its obviously not loading the policies correctly. However, I fail to find any problems with my policy files, so I'd like to ask for some help in making sure they are correct (first time I've tampered with dbus/hal...): My configuration files are as follows: /etc/dbus-1/system.conf: <a href="http://pastebin.com/856654">http://pastebin.com/856654</a> /etc/dbus-1/system.d/NetworkManager.conf <a href="http://pastebin.com/856656"> http://pastebin.com/856656</a> /etc/dbus-1/system.d/nm-applet.conf: <a href="http://pastebin.com/856658">http://pastebin.com/856658</a> /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf and PolicyKit.conf (FWIW): <a href="http://pastebin.com/856661">http://pastebin.com/856661</a> <a href="http://pastebin.com/856670">http://pastebin.com/856670</a> Do I need to load any extra services (I have PAM installed, but I'm unaware if I need to have any king of pam-daemon running)? I feel I'm really close to getting this working, so any help with this is much appreciated!! Regards, Eugéne