ModemManager will not start on raspberry pi jessie lite

[Dan Williams]

On Wed, 2017-05-17 at 22:53 +0200, marcel wrote:
> Well as it might get a multiple-user system I would like to get the 
> PolicyKit working.
> 
> But I also tried
> 
>      $ mmcli -m 0 --with-polkit=no 
> --simple-connect=apn=m2mdetrial.telefonica.com|operator-id=26203

Sorry if I wasn't clear.  The --with-polkit is a ModemManager build-
time option, not a runtime one for mmcli.

So when you are compiling the ModemManager package, you'd pass "--with-
polkit=no" to the 'configure' script.

If your distro has provided you with pre-built packages and you can't
change them, then you should install the "PolicyKit" or "polkit"
package.  That should satisfy the dependency.

Dan

> and it now says
> 
> -bash: operator-id=26203: command not found
> 
> error: no actions specified
> 
> 
> I also can't enable the modem with
> 
>      $ mmcli -m 0 -e
> 
> as I get the error
> 
>      error: couldn't enable the modem: 
> 'GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.ModemManager1.Error.Core.Failed:
> PolicyKit 
> authorization failed: 
> 'GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name 
> org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 was not provided by any .service files''
> 
> 
> Is there any additional useful information that I can provide you?
> 
> 
> 
> On 17.05.2017 17:00, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Wed, 2017-05-17 at 08:49 +0200, marcel wrote:
> > > I am able to run them, but can I check somehow if the Modem
> > > Manager
> > > is
> > > running after that? As I still get the same warning from running
> > > 
> > >       $ sudo ModemManager
> > > 
> > > as before
> > > 
> > > 
> > > but something did actually change, I just ran
> > > 
> > >        $ sudo mmcli -m 0
> > > --simple-connect=apn=m2mdetrial.telefonica.com|operator-id=26203
> > > 
> > > and before, it just said command not found, but now i got:
> > > 
> > >       error: couldn't connect the modem:
> > > 'GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.ModemManager1.Error.Core.Failed:
> > > PolicyKit
> > > authorization failed:
> > > 'GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
> > > org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 was not provided by any .service
> > > files''
> > 
> > ModemManager can optionally use PolicyKit to ensure non-root users
> > can't mess up the modem.  If you don't care about that, or you have
> > a
> > single-user system, or an embedded-type system, you may not want to
> > use
> > PolicyKit at all.
> > 
> > You can disable PolicyKit at build-time by passing the "--with-
> > polkit=no" option to the configure script.
> > 
> > Dan
> > 
> > 
> > > and I just searched for an occurence of 'PolicyKit1' as part of
> > > any
> > > file
> > > name, and it didn't find any :/
> > > But the Modem Manager might be running now, so thank you very
> > > much :)
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On 17.05.2017 00:39, Aleksander Morgado wrote:
> > > > On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 11:04 PM, marcel <mahik18 at gmx.de>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > /lib/systemd/system/ModemManager.service
> > > > 
> > > > This looks right. Are you not able to run these commands?
> > > > 
> > > > $ sudo systemctl enable ModemManager
> > > > $ sudo systemctl start ModemManager
> > > > 
> > > 
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