Bug#421251: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#421251: dies across suspend

[Michael Biebl]

tags 421251 unreproducible
thanks

Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> severity 421251 important
> thanks
> 
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 05:42:42PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> As a workaround, you can tell g-p-m to not notify NetworkManager.
>> Edit the gconf key (via gconf-editor)
>> /apps/gnome-power-manager/networkmanager_sleep and set it to false.
>>
>> As there is a working workaround and it seems to be a ipw3954 specific
>> problem, I'm setting the severity to minor.
> 
> I just checked, and this workaround is next to useless. If I suspend,
> move the laptop and resume with networkmanager_sleep=false, it simply
> never discovers the move. As it insists on showing me the old list of ESSIDs,

This was to expect.

> I can either wait a few minutes (which is _way_ too long to be useful), or
> simply restart network-manager, at which point we're back where we started.

You don't have to restart nm for that. Simply left click on the
nm-applet notification are icon. This triggers a rescan after 30 secs.
So your network should show up quickly. Don't click multiple time on the
icon, because this will reset the 30s timer each time you click.

> Thus, I'm re-upgrading the severity.
> 
> I still contend that n-m should not disable an interface just because it
> happens not to be ready on resume from sleep, especially given that I've now
> mentioned three distinct network cards exhibiting the same behavior in this
> thread.

The problem is, that I can't reproduce this behaviour.


Michael

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