[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#649041: Bug#649041: network-manager-gnome: cannot turn on wifi after it has been turned off

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Michael,

pink on that ..

On Do, 17 Nov 2011, Norbert Preining wrote:
> > Please attach a debug log of NetworkManager [1] when your are disabling
> > and (re)enabling the device using nm-applet. Is this behaviour
> > reproducible with
> > nmcli nm wifi off
> > nmcli nm wifi off
> 
> Yes it is (with the second line "on").
> 
> The effect is that the first line, turning off, does the usual thing:
> NetworkManager[2185]: <info> (wlan0): device state change: activated -> unavailable (reason 'none') [100 20 0]
> NetworkManager[2185]: <info> (wlan0): deactivating device (reason 'none') [0]
> NetworkManager[2185]: <info> (wlan0): canceled DHCP transaction, DHCP client pid 26399
> wpa_supplicant[2304]: CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=00:00:00:00:00:00 reason=3
> NetworkManager[2185]: <info> (wlan0): taking down device.
> dbus[2175]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher' (using servicehelper)
> dbus[2175]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher'
> NetworkManager[2185]: <info> WiFi hardware radio set disabled
> NetworkManager[2185]: <info> WiFi now disabled by radio killswitch
> 
> But the second line shows *nothing* at all.
> 
> But using the rfkill command it *does* work indeed.
> 
> kernel: 3.2.0-rc1

Reproducible with 3.2.0 final

Best wishes

Norbert
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