error: couldn't find the ModemManager process in the bus

Aleksander Morgado aleksander at aleksander.es
Tue Jul 28 09:18:26 PDT 2015


On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 7:33 PM, Bernd Eggink <monoped at sudrala.de> wrote:
>>> Thank you Aleksander.
>>>
>>> I'm on Ubuntu so I tried this without success:
>>>
>>>    jmss at aida:~$ sudo update-rc.d modemmanager defaults
>>>    update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/modemmanager: file does not exist
>>>
>>> Then I looked inside /etc/init/modemmanager.conf and saw:
>>>
>>>    start on starting network-manager
>>>    stop on stopped network-manager
>>>
>>> Maybe I'm not running network-manager since this is a server without GUI?
>>
>>
>> Well, NetworkManager can be used in servers without GUI.
>>
>> Check if it is installed, with e.g.:
>> $ dpkg -l | grep network
>
> And ModemManager can be used without NetworkManager. On my system (Crux), I
> do everything with mmcli and a couple of scripts.

Just wondering, you're parsing mmcli text responses as well? I'm
worried that if we ever change the mmcli outputs (or just the format
of the outputs) things will start to break out there... there's no
guarantee that the text responses will always be kept the same...

-- 
Aleksander
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