[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#567207: Bug#567207: network-manager: Can't launch X application while connected to a wireless network

[Michael Biebl]

severity 567207 important
thanks

On 28.01.2010 00:14, Yannick Roehlly wrote:
> Package: network-manager
> Version: 0.7.999-2
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks unrelated software
> 
> I know the summary of the bug is a bit strange, but it's what happens.
> 
> While connected to a wireless network (I didn't test connected to a wired network) all X application fails
> to start with a "cannot connect to X server :0.0" error.
> 
> For instance, if I start my session without auto-connection, open a konsole terminal, launch a X application
> (e.g. dolphin) there's no problem.
> If I connect to the wireless network and try again to launch dolphin (or whatever X app), it fails because
> it can't connect to the X server.
> If I disconnect from the network, I can again launch an X app.
> 
> I tried both with gnome/network-manager-gnome and kde/network-manager-kde.
> 
> I updated all the network-manager packages that were left in new queue, same problem.
> 
> I didn't found any useful information in /var/log/syslog nor in /var/log/daemon.log. I'm sorry, I'm a bit out of 
> ideas where to search for that bug.


I guess, your hostname got changed and Xorg pukes because of that.

Could you get me the output of hostname after you connect to the network? I'd
also be interested in
/etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf

Thanks,
Michael
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