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

[Patrick Wiseman]

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
> 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.

It returns '0'.  If I plug in the wire, as I just did, NM connects to
the wired network, and it returns '1'.  When I disconnected the wire,
I did not lose my connection - the wireless connection was still up.

Patrick