[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#471317: No networks and other issues

[Enrico Tassi]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.6.5-5

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I'm experiencing the same problem. In addition to that, also wired network
does not work, It seems the link change event is not detected. 
If I start NM with the ethernet cable in, it tries to set up the network but
loops forver. this is the last part of NM output when I start it with the eth
cable in.

  NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth1) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) complete.
  NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth1) Stage 3 of 5 (IP Configure Start) started...
  process 17197: arguments to dbus_message_get_args() were incorrect, assertion "(error) == NULL || !dbus_error_is_set ((error))" failed in file dbus-message.c line 1667.
  This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.
  NetworkManager: <info>  Error getting killswitch power arguments:  - 
  NetworkManager: <info>  Wireless now enabled by radio killswitch

Note that the next to last list sometimes prints a random utf8 character
after '-', suggesting a memory corruption...

With NM in that state, nm-tool prints:
 
 NetworkManager Tool

 get_nm_state(): didn't get a reply from NetworkManager.


 NetworkManager appears not to be running (could not get its state).

The same happens even if there is no eth cable in (NM in that case does
nothing, and the gnome interface shows no detected neworks).

I've tried downgrading to glib 2.16-1 (from -2) and now it works!!
(the .diff is still available since some buildds are very slow...)

--- System information. ---
Architecture: amd64
Kernel:       Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64

Debian Release: lenny/sid
  500 unstable        www.debian-multimedia.org 
  500 unstable        ftp.it.debian.org 

--- Package information. ---
Depends                   (Version) | Installed
===================================-+-===============
adduser                             | 3.106
dbus                      (>= 0.60) | 1.1.20-1
dhcdbd                  (>= 1.12-2) | 3.0-2
hal                    (>= 0.5.7.1) | 0.5.10+git20080301-1
ifupdown                            | 0.6.8
iproute                             | 20080108-1
iputils-arping                      | 3:20071127-1
libc6                    (>= 2.7-1) | 2.7-9
libdbus-1-3              (>= 1.1.1) | 1.1.20-1
libdbus-glib-1-2          (>= 0.74) | 0.74-1
libgcrypt11              (>= 1.4.0) | 1.4.0-3
libglib2.0-0            (>= 2.14.0) | 2.16.1-2
libgpg-error0              (>= 1.4) | 1.4-2
libhal1                 (>= 0.5.10) | 0.5.10+git20080301-1
libiw29              (>= 28+29pre7) | 29-1
libnl1                              | 1.1-2
libnm-util0                         | 0.6.5-5
lsb-base                 (>= 3.0-6) | 3.2-4
wpasupplicant            (>= 0.4.8) | 0.6.3-1


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Enrico Tassi