[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#605697: network-manager-gnome: no feedback when creating an Ad-Hoc WiFi network fails due to dnsmasq not being installed

[Paul Wise]

Package: network-manager-gnome
Version: 0.8.1-2
Severity: normal

I tried to create an Ad-Hoc WiFi network but it failed due to dnsmasq
not being installed. Luckily I figured I should look at syslog:

Dec  2 20:08:09 chianamo NetworkManager[1956]: <error> [1291291689.837124] [nm-device.c:2434] start_sharing(): (wlan0/wlan0): failed to start dnsmasq: Could not find dnsmasq binary

There should be some feedback in the UI if it fails due dnsmasq /
iptables / etc being missing. Preferably the creation dialog should
detect lack of those binaries and present an error message instead of
allowing the user to attempt to create the connection. After I installed
dnsmasq-base, creating an ad-hoc network worked fine.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (550, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.36-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome depends on:
ii  dbus-x11                1.2.24-3         simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  gconf2                  2.28.1-6         GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-icon-theme        2.30.3-2         GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  libatk1.0-0             1.30.0-1         The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-7         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2               1.8.10-6         The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3             1.2.24-3         simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2        0.88-2           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libfontconfig1          2.8.0-2.1        generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6            2.4.2-2.1        FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4             2.28.1-6         GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0             1:2.6.4-1        library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.24.2-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-bluetooth7     2.30.0-2         GNOME Bluetooth tools - support li
ii  libgnome-keyring0       2.30.1-1         GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgtk2.0-0             2.20.1-2         The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libnm-glib-vpn1         0.8.1-4          network management framework (GLib
ii  libnm-glib2             0.8.1-4          network management framework (GLib
ii  libnm-util1             0.8.1-4          network management framework (shar
ii  libnotify1 [libnotify1- 0.5.0-2          sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  libpango1.0-0           1.28.3-1         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libxml2                 2.7.8.dfsg-1     GNOME XML library
ii  network-manager         0.8.1-4          network management framework daemo
ii  policykit-1-gnome       0.96-3           GNOME authentication agent for Pol
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome recommends:
ii  gnome-bluetooth               2.30.0-2   GNOME Bluetooth tools
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring [libpam- 2.30.3-4   PAM module to unlock the GNOME key
ii  mobile-broadband-provider-inf 20101106-1 database of mobile broadband servi
ii  notification-daemon           0.5.0-2    daemon to displays passive pop-up 

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome suggests:
ii  network-manager-openvpn-gnome 0.8.1-1    network management framework (Open
pn  network-manager-pptp-gnome    <none>     (no description available)
pn  network-manager-vpnc-gnome    <none>     (no description available)

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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