[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#527850: network-manager: Upgrade to 0.7.1-1 broke wireless connectivity

[Patrick Steiner]

Restart you pc and try it again. I had the same problem and after e
computer restart everything works fine. don't forget to enable access
for the keyring manager

vittorio wrote:
> Package: network-manager
> Version: 0.6.6-3
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
>
> Hi
>
> Earlier today, update-manager offered to upgrade network-manager and 
> other 5 related packages to version 0.7.1-1, which I gladly accepted.
>
> At the end of the upgrade, an error message was displayed sayng that 
> network-manager applet couldn't find some important resources.
>
> Tried to resuscitate (restart) network interfaces and network-manager 
> itself to no joy. Modprobed ath5k a few times with no errors. Rebooted 
> just to be sure, still no wireless connectivity.
>
> Had to revert to cable ethernet. Brought back network-manager and 
> related packages to version 0.6.6 and everithing works fine now.
>
> Something very wrong seems to be happening to wireless with latest 
> network-manager in testing.
>
> Regards
> Vittorio 
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: squeeze/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
>
> Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
> ii  adduser      3.110                       add and remove users and groups
> ii  dbus         1.2.12-1                    simple interprocess messaging syst
> ii  dhcdbd       3.0-5                       D-Bus interface to the ISC DHCP cl
> ii  hal          0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-2 Hardware Abstraction Layer
> ii  ifupdown     0.6.8+nmu1                  high level tools to configure netw
> ii  iproute      20090324-1                  networking and traffic control too
> ii  libc6        2.9-4                       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> ii  libdbus-1-3  1.2.12-1                    simple interprocess messaging syst
> ii  libdbus-glib 0.80-4                      simple interprocess messaging syst
> ii  libgcrypt11  1.4.4-2                     LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
> ii  libglib2.0-0 2.20.0-2                    The GLib library of C routines
> ii  libgpg-error 1.6-1                       library for common error values an
> ii  libhal1      0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-2 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
> ii  libiw29      29-1.1                      Wireless tools - library
> ii  libnl1       1.1-5                       library for dealing with netlink s
> ii  libnm-util0  0.6.6-3                     network management framework (shar
> ii  lsb-base     3.2-22                      Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
> ii  wpasupplican 0.6.9-2                     client support for WPA and WPA2 (I
>
> Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
> ii  network-manager-gnome         0.6.6-4    network management framework (GNOM
>
> network-manager suggests no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>
>
>   

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Patrick Steiner
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