NetworkManager ConsoleKit Issues (Arch Linux)

After upgrading a lot of packages, nm-applet started failing with the following message:

** (nm-applet:2211): WARNING **: <WARN>  request_name(): Could not acquire the NetworkManagerUserSettings service.

Error: (9) Connection “:1.18″ is not allowed to own the service “org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings” due to security policies in the configuration file

The fix was to edit /etc/dbus-1/system.d/nm-applet.conf and copy some of the permissions given to the root user over to the default context.

By the way, this requires ck-launch-session to be running. FYI, here is what my ~/.xinitrc does:

xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap

batterymon &

ck-launch-session &

nm-applet &

volumeicon &

awesome

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