[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#556284: network-manager: forces browser into offline mode and prevents pidgin from connecting

[Chris Carr]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.7.1-2
Severity: normal

On my Squeeze system network-manager seems incapable of recognising that the network is functioning perfectly well. It forces epiphany (or firefox, or whichever) to start in offline mode, and it prevents pidgin from connecting any accounts on startup. On opening the gnome network manager applet, there appears to be no way to override this error. Googling for solutions leads to disabling network-manager altogether, which is presumably not what you want users to do.

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                3.111             add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                   1.2.16-2          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  dhcp3-client           3.1.2p1-1         DHCP client
ii  hal                    0.5.13-3          Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  ifupdown               0.6.9             high level tools to configure netw
ii  libc6                  2.9-25            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.16-2          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.82-1            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11            1.4.4-4           LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.22.0-1          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnutls26            2.8.3-3           the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgpg-error0          1.6-1             library for common error values an
ii  libhal1                0.5.13-3          Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libnl1                 1.1-5             library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-glib0            0.7.1-2           network management framework (GLib
ii  libnm-util1            0.7.1-2           network management framework (shar
ii  libpolkit-dbus2        0.9-4             library for accessing PolicyKit vi
ii  libpolkit2             0.9-4             library for accessing PolicyKit
ii  libtasn1-3             2.3-1             Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libudev0               0.141-2           libudev shared library
ii  libuuid1               2.16.1-3          Universally Unique ID library
ii  lsb-base               3.2-23            Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  wpasupplicant          0.6.9-3           client support for WPA and WPA2 (I
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
pn  dnsmasq-base                  <none>     (no description available)
pn  iptables                      <none>     (no description available)
ii  network-manager-gnome         0.7.1-1    network management framework (GNOM
ii  policykit                     0.9-4      framework for managing administrat
pn  ppp                           <none>     (no description available)

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
pn  avahi-autoipd                 <none>     (no description available)

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