[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#567354: libnm-util1_0.7.999-2 breaks knetworkmanager's connecting to wireless networks

[Markus Gerstner]

Package: libnm-util1
Version: 0.7.999-2
Severity: important

After upgrading to 0.7.999-2, knetworkmanager wouldn't connect to wireless networks anymore, without producing an error-message.
syslog reports the following:
Jan 28 12:53:21 ozymandius NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): bringing up device.
Jan 28 12:53:21 ozymandius kernel: Registered led device: iwl-phy0::radio
Jan 28 12:53:21 ozymandius kernel: Registered led device: iwl-phy0::assoc
Jan 28 12:53:21 ozymandius kernel: Registered led device: iwl-phy0::RX
Jan 28 12:53:21 ozymandius kernel: Registered led device: iwl-phy0::TX
Jan 28 12:53:21 ozymandius kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
Jan 28 12:53:21 ozymandius NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): supplicant interface state:  starting -> ready
Jan 28 12:53:21 ozymandius NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): device state change: 2 -> 3 (reason 0)
Jan 28 12:53:21 ozymandius wpa_supplicant[2657]: Failed to initiate AP scan.
Jan 28 12:53:23 ozymandius wpa_supplicant[2657]: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS
Jan 28 12:53:23 ozymandius wpa_supplicant[2657]: WPS-AP-AVAILABLE
Jan 28 12:53:38 ozymandius blueman-mechanism: Exiting
Jan 28 12:53:40 ozymandius NetworkManager: <WARN>  wait_for_connection_expired(): Connection (2) /org/freedesktop/NetworkManagerSettings/Connection/4 failed to activate (timeout): (0) Connection was not provided by any settings service 

The wireless card is a 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] Network Connection (rev 61) in a Lenovo ThinkPad R61, however connecting via 3G-Modem and bluetooth (3G via mobile) fails with the same syslog-entry.
I can't tell if it's a problem with libnm itself or an incompatibility of knetworkmanager (sorry if I'm filing against the wrong package) with the new version of the library. Downgrading libnm-util1 and network-manager to 0.7.2-2 works around the problem.
I'll be glad to provide additional info if needed.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-6.slh.4-sidux-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libnm-util1 depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.10.2-5   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.16-2   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2              0.82-2     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11                   1.4.5-1    LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.22.4-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnutls26                   2.8.5-2    the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libuuid1                      2.16.2-0   Universally Unique ID library

libnm-util1 recommends no packages.

libnm-util1 suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information