[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#517427: network-manager-gnome: says no network connection

[Marius Mikucionis]

Package: network-manager-gnome
Version: 0.7.1-1
Severity: normal

I haven't seen this bug before, only after recent upgrade (a few days ago).
The icon shows no network, the tooltip also says no network connection.
The left-click popup menu is also totally disabled except VPN submenus.

The upgrade was very disruptive leaving networking down and the icon did not 
improve after clicking enable/disable, so nm-applet is misleading now sending 
into unneccessary panic, worse than useless.

Here is my /etc/network/interfaces:

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29.3-d630 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=lt_LT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=lt_LT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.9-6       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                  1.2.12-1    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2             0.80-4      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgconf2-4                  2.26.0-1    GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0                  1:2.6.4-1   library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.20.0-2    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0            2.26.0-4    GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgtk2.0-0                  2.16.1-2    The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libnm-glib-vpn0              0.7.1-1     network management framework (GLib
ii  libnm-glib0                  0.7.1-1     network management framework (GLib
ii  libnm-util1                  0.7.1-1     network management framework (shar
ii  libnotify1 [libnotify1-gtk2. 0.4.5-1     sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  libpango1.0-0                1.24.0-3+b1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpolkit-gnome0             0.9.2-1     PolicyKit-gnome library
ii  libpolkit2                   0.9-3       library for accessing PolicyKit
ii  network-manager              0.7.1-1     network management framework daemo
ii  policykit-gnome              0.9.2-1     GNOME dialogs for PolicyKit

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome recommends:
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring [libpam- 2.26.0-4   PAM module to unlock the GNOME key
ii  notification-daemon           0.4.0-1    a daemon that displays passive pop

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome suggests:
pn  network-manager-openvpn-gnome <none>     (no description available)
pn  network-manager-pptp-gnome    <none>     (no description available)
ii  network-manager-vpnc-gnome    0.7.1-1    network management framework (VPNC

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