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network-manager package

Network-Manager becomes unresponsive in Gnome, Won't configure Wireless

Bug #444181 reported by Geoffrey P. on 2009-10-06

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This bug affects 7 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	network-manager (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Noel J. Bergman

Bug Description

Binary package hint: network-manager

1) Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch) Release: 9.10
2) network-manager:
  Installed: 0.8~a~git.20091005t192303.1d28ad1-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 0.8~a~git.20091005t192303.1d28ad1-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
*** 0.8~a~git.20091005t192303.1d28ad1-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
3) Expected to connect to wireless network
4) Karmic Beta, fresh install. Wireless worked out-of-the box. Upon system updates (no other system changes at all) the network manager initially responds to mouse click. When selecting the wireless network to connect to it fails and does not configure the network. CLI networking reconfig fails with message "Ignoring WLAN0". Wired Ethernet still connects (how I'm able to post this error)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
CheckboxSubmission: ff13eba68fce63892f8f0ce735007fea
CheckboxSystem: 2954e74ba17fb0e37fc942cd1d9fab4e
Date: Mon Oct 5 21:35:19 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
IfupdownConfig:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
InterestingModules: b44
IpRoute:
192.168.15.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.15.100 metric 1
169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000
default via 192.168.15.1 dev eth0 proto static
Package: network-manager 0.8~a~git.20091005t192303.1d28ad1-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic
SourcePackage: network-manager
Tags: driver-b44
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686

Tags:

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Geoffrey P. (geoffrey-p) wrote on 2009-10-06:

#1

Dependencies.txt Edit (2.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Gconf.txt Edit (488 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
IpAddr.txt Edit (824 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
IwConfig.txt Edit (531 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
NetDevice.eth0.txt Edit (543 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
NetDevice.lo.txt Edit (2.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
NetDevice.wlan0.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
NetDevice.wmaster0.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
PciNetwork.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
RfKill.txt Edit (124 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
WifiSyslog.txt Edit (466.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XsessionErrors.txt Edit (1.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
nm-system-settings.conf.txt Edit (313 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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John B. (jbuncher) wrote on 2009-10-06:

#2

Also hit by this bug, though I didn't confirm the CLI stuff the OP reported.

Driver is iwl9345, loads fine upon boot. Clicking on the applet seems to be ok, though after the upgrade it no longer auto-connects to the home (wpa personal) network that I connect to. I click on the applet and can see the various available networks, and clicking on y usual one seems to crash the applet (it becomes unresponsive, other parts of hte system and panel are fine). Network connection is never established.

/e/n/i just contains the lines :

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

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Susan Cragin (susancragin) wrote on 2009-10-06:

#3

This is not just a problem in a new install. I have been running Karmic studio ever since its alpha, and the wireless just stopped working with today's apt-get update / upgrade.
But other than that my experience is identical to the one described above.

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Noel J. Bergman (noeljb) wrote on 2009-10-06:

#4

marking as confirmed based on reports. still waiting for the new code to hit my mirrors.

Changed in network-manager (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote on 2009-10-06:

#5

please wait for the applet to finish building etc. once you have all pieces, reboot your system and see if you still get this.

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Noel J. Bergman (noeljb) wrote on 2009-10-06:

#6

OK, I pointed some people at the PPA, and we have confirmed that it is fixed by installing the newer applet from the PPA.

PPA: https://launchpad.net/~network-manager/+archive/trunk/+packages

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John B. (jbuncher) wrote on 2009-10-06:

#7

Noel provided a newer applet from the ppa, network-manager-gnome_0.8~a~git.20091002t194214.8515a07-0ubuntu1~nmt1_i386.deb . Installing the newer applet fixed the above issue for me.

Noel J. Bergman (noeljb) on 2009-10-06

Changed in network-manager (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → Noel J. Bergman (noeljb)
status:	Confirmed → Fix Committed

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Geoffrey P. (geoffrey-p) wrote on 2009-10-06:

#8

OP: Fixed as per Noel J. Bergman

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pablomme (pablomme) wrote on 2009-10-06:

#9

That was quick, thanks!

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null (j23423422-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2009-10-06:

#10

Affects me

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ginnyh532 (ginnyh532) wrote on 2009-10-06:

#11

When will the fix be published so I can run update-manager normally? I'm fairly new to all this and am afraid I'll install the broken version that kills my wifi connection.

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Anders Sjöström (anders-sjostrom) wrote on 2009-10-06:

#12

My wireless broke too when I updated again this morning - one hour ago (was working fine with yesterdays updates). I'll try the fix when I get home from work.

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote on 2009-10-06:

#13

isnt this even fixed with all the latest from the archive?

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null (j23423422-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2009-10-06:

#14

Bug has been fixed with latest update.

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Noel J. Bergman (noeljb) wrote on 2009-10-06:

#15

@asac, it should be fixed. No one who has the new applet has reported the problem. But for whatever reason, the mirrors have been slow update. I didn't see the new network-manager for hours after others did, and it was quite a few more hours before I saw the new applet. Since the network-manager doesn't Depend: on the (new) applet -- it is only Recommends: --, they were getting one without the other.

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pablomme (pablomme) wrote on 2009-10-06:

#16

Shouldn't network-manager-gnome depend on a matching version of network-manager so that temporary mirroring issues do not become a problem? Mind that after updating NetworkManager the user is asked to reboot the computer, making for an even greater chance to screw up.

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John B. (jbuncher) wrote on 2009-10-06:

#17

@asac : Not sure if you needed this confirmation, but about an hour or so after I installed the network-manager-gnome listed above from the PPA that Noel provided, I got an update for it from the repos, it installed and ran just fine, so the stuff that's in the repos for me *now* should just work. I am using us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu for the main/restricted/universe/multiverse repos, and security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu for the karmic-security updates for those sections.

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Anders Sjöström (anders-sjostrom) wrote on 2009-10-06:

#18

Works for me now too from the normal repositories.

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote on 2009-10-07:

#19

ok so marking released.

Changed in network-manager (Ubuntu):
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

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ginnyh532 (ginnyh532) wrote on 2009-10-07:

#20

It is fixed. Thank you to everyone involved.

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