[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#623467: network-manager: Networkmanager 0.8.1-6+squeeze1 fails to manage wireless networks (Network is disabled)

[Jonathan Protzenko]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.8.3.999-1
Severity: important
Tags: squeeze

After an upgrade, Network Manager is now unable to handle my wireless network.
It displays "Wireless is disabled". Downgrading to the version from stable
fixes the issue. The following sequence of commands works:
- sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
- sudo iwlist scanning
And the list of networks appears, which makes me think that the problem comes
from NetworkManager.

I initially thought this was #544217 but I just upgraded my BIOS and all my
packages are up-to-date (I'm running testing). Plus, #544217 is kinda old and
rfkill is reporting correct values (i.e not blocked). I read in some other bug
report that changing the value of managed= in /etc/NetworkManager/ would fix
the issue, but it didn't help either.

I can investigate more if you tell me what you'd like to see. In the meanwhile,
I'm going to downgrade again :-).



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                    3.112+nmu2    add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                       1.4.6-1       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  isc-dhcp-client            4.1.1-P1-16.1 ISC DHCP client
ii  libc6                      2.11.2-11     Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdbus-1-3                1.4.6-1       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2           0.92-1        simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11                1.4.6-5       LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.28.4-1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnutls26                2.10.5-1+b1   the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgudev-1.0-0             167-1         GObject-based wrapper library for 
ii  libnl1                     1.1-6         library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-glib2                0.8.3.999-1   network management framework (GLib
ii  libnm-util1                0.8.3.999-1   network management framework (shar
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0      0.101-2       PolicyKit Authorization API
ii  libuuid1                   2.17.2-9.1    Universally Unique ID library
ii  lsb-base                   3.2-27        Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  udev                       167-1         /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  wpasupplicant              0.6.10-2.1    client support for WPA and WPA2 (I

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  dnsmas 2.57-1                            A small caching DNS proxy and DHCP
ii  iptabl 1.4.10-1                          administration tools for packet fi
ii  modemm 0.4+git.20110124t203624.00b6cce-2 D-Bus service for managing modems
ii  policy 0.101-2                           framework for managing administrat
ii  ppp    2.4.5-5                           Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - da

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
ii  avahi-autoipd                 0.6.29-1   Avahi IPv4LL network address confi

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf changed:
[main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile
[ifupdown]
managed=true


-- no debconf information