[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#707186: network-manager: wireless reconnection doesn't work without stoping NM an killing nm-applet

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.9.8.0-4
Severity: important


Hi.

I have the following problem:
Using NM in managed mode with a /e/n/interfaces connection like this:
iface wlan0-foo inet dhcp
        wpa-ssid foobar
        wpa-key-mgmt WPA-PSK
        wpa-psk blafas
        dns-search example.org

setting up the connection only works the very first time (after system boot),
i.e. I have to manually click that connection in GNOME's nm-applet, as it doesn't
start it automatically (don't know why).

When it got lost or I disconnect via the NM applet... reconnection doesn't work anymore.
The animation with the two turning bullets is circling forever.

This can be resolved by the following
/etc/init.d/network-manager stop
killall nm-applet
/etc/init.d/network-manager start

Any idea what this could be or how to debug?


Cheers,
Chris.



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

Kernel: Linux 3.8-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DE.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                   1.16.10
ii  isc-dhcp-client        4.2.4-6
ii  libc6                  2.17-1
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.6.8-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.100.2-1
ii  libgcrypt11            1.5.0-5
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.33.12+really2.32.4-5
ii  libgnutls26            2.12.20-6
ii  libgudev-1.0-0         175-7.2
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            0.9.8.0-4
ii  libnm-util2            0.9.8.0-4
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.105-3
ii  libuuid1               2.20.1-5.3
ii  lsb-base               4.1+Debian9
ii  udev                   175-7.2
ii  wpasupplicant          1.0-3+b2

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  crda          1.1.2-1
ii  dnsmasq-base  2.66-1
ii  iptables      1.4.18-1
pn  modemmanager  <none>
ii  policykit-1   0.105-3
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=ifupdown,keyfile
[ifupdown]
managed=true

/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pkla [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pkla'

-- no debconf information