[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#527857: Bug#527857: network-manager: Latest version still causes system freeze

[Michael Biebl]

severity 527857 important
thanks

Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> Package: network-manager
> Version: 0.7.1-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> The update had seemed to correct the problem, but it recurred this 
> evening, this time when connected wirelessly.  The syslog, before the 
> freeze, looks like this:
> 

> May 12 18:04:19 sage dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 
> port 67 interval 4
> May 12 18:04:23 sage dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received.
> May 12 18:04:23 sage dhclient: No working leases in persistent database 
> - sleeping.
> May 12 18:04:33 sage wpa_supplicant[3860]: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS 
> 
> eth0 is my WIRED connection, and it was not connected, and so there's no 
> reason to be seeking a DHCP address.  So, it seems that when the wired 
> connection was on, wlan0 was trying to connect (the earlier bug); and 
> when the wireless connection is on, eth0 is trying to connect.  Neither 
> should be happening.


NM will only try to establish a connection, if there is a link (eth) or a
wireless connection in range.
If your eth0 is reporting a link even if it's not connected, it's again a driver
issue. Please check what "cat /sys/class/net/eth0/carrier" says in such a case.
Again, please attach the output of NetworkManager or at least tell us which
drivers you use.

Could you also please test a newer kernel. It should be safe to pull it from
unstable alongside your testing kernel.

Thanks,
Michael

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