[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#691790: network-manager: Connectivity checking fails

[Alex Hermann]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.9.6.4-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

The connectivity checking feature introduced by version 0.9.4 of
network-manager doesn't work with the Debian provided version. I added the
[connectivity] section (see below) and also tried with the command-line
options. Neither works. NM creates no related network traffic, as monitored
with ngrep. There is also no mention of the settings, functionality nor
failure in syslog, not even with log-level=DEBUG.

The functionality is described in the man-page and with --help so it should
be expected it is available.


The feature requires the use of libsoup. Checking with ldd it reveals that
nm
isn't linked against it:

$ ldd /usr/sbin/NetworkManager | grep soup -c
0

So it seems nm isn't compiled with libsoup headers present. Why the option
is mentioned in the --help and the man page even though it clearly isn't
compiled in is another bug, one that will become obsolete once nm is
compiled
against libsoup.


Please compile nm against libsoup so the connectivity feature can be used.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (300, 'experimental'), (90, 'oneiric')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.5-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113+nmu3
ii  dbus                   1.6.8-1
ii  dpkg                   1.16.9
ii  isc-dhcp-client        4.2.4-3
ii  libc6                  2.13-36
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.6.8-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.100-1
ii  libgcrypt11            1.5.0-3
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.33.12+really2.32.4-3
ii  libgnutls26            2.12.20-1
ii  libgudev-1.0-0         175-7
ii  libnl-3-200            3.2.7-4
ii  libnl-genl-3-200       3.2.7-4
ii  libnl-route-3-200      3.2.7-4
ii  libnm-glib4            0.9.6.4-1
ii  libnm-util2            0.9.6.4-1
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.105-1
ii  libuuid1               2.20.1-5.2
ii  lsb-base               4.1+Debian7
ii  udev                   175-7
ii  wpasupplicant          1.0-3

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
pn  crda          <none>
ii  dnsmasq-base  2.63-4
ii  iptables      1.4.16.3-1
ii  modemmanager  0.5.2.0-2
ii  policykit-1   0.105-1
ii  ppp           2.4.5-5.1+b1

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
pn  avahi-autoipd  <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf changed:
[main]
plugins=keyfile
[ifupdown]
managed=true
[connectivity] 
uri=http://start.ubuntu.com/connectivity-check.html
response=Lorem ipsum 
interval=30


-- no debconf information