ModemManager will not start on raspberry pi jessie lite

[Dan Williams]

On Tue, 2017-05-16 at 19:08 +0200, marcel wrote:
> Hey, I got like the a very similar error as in:
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/modemmanager-devel/2015-April/
> 001885.html
> 
> but I got no /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services, as those files are
> in 
> /etc/dbus-1/ on my system
> 
> just with ModemManager I get
> 
> ModemManager[760]: <info> ModemManager (version 1.4.0) starting in 
> system bus...
> ModemManager[760]: <warn> Could not acquire the 
> 'org.freedesktop.ModemManager1' service name
> ModemManager[760]: <info> ModemManager is shut down

Are you running it as root?

> whereis ModemManager gives:
> ModemManager: /usr/sbin/ModemManager
> /usr/share/man/man8/ModemManager.8.gz
> 
> I got my org.freedesktop.ModemManager1.service in 
> /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/
> 
> service modemmanager start gives:
> Failed to start modemmanager.service: Unit modemmanager.service
> failed 
> to load: No such file or directory

Try ModemManager rather than "modemmanager".  Does that work?

Dan

> 
> I just can't figure out what may be wrong, is there anyone who could 
> help me?
> 
> Thanks
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