[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#707070: Bug#707070: Bug#707070: Bug#707070: NetworkManager tries to manage an ifupdown-managed eth0 (managed=false)

[Michael Biebl]

Am 08.05.2013 23:50, schrieb Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho:
> On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 08:11:38PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> Am 08.05.2013 10:41, schrieb Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho:
>>> Of course, now nm claims I'm not connected, but I think that's a feature, not a
>>> bug, with this arrangement.
>>
>> Actually, no. I've added Debian specific patches to track the ifupdown
>> state in /run/network/ifstate and if eth0=eth0 is listed that,
>> network-manager should forcefully set the global online state to
>> connected, even if the device itself is marked as unmanaged.
>>
>> What does your /run/network/ifstate contain and nm-tool say?
> 
> ajk at teralehti:~$ cat /run/network/ifstate
> lo=lo
> eth0=eth0
> ajk at teralehti:~$ nm-tool
> 
> NetworkManager Tool
> 
> State: disconnected
> 
> - Device: wlan0 ----------------------------------------------------------------
>   Type:              802.11 WiFi
>   Driver:            ath9k
>   State:             unavailable
>   Default:           no
>   HW Address:        20:16:D8:B7:57:45
> 
>   Capabilities:
> 
>   Wireless Properties
>     WEP Encryption:  yes
>     WPA Encryption:  yes
>     WPA2 Encryption: yes
> 
>   Wireless Access Points 
> 
> 
> - Device: eth0 -----------------------------------------------------------------
>   Type:              Wired
>   Driver:            r8169
>   State:             disconnected
>   Default:           no
>   HW Address:        00:03:0D:5C:C6:6C
> 
>   Capabilities:
>     Carrier Detect:  yes
>     Speed:           100 Mb/s
> 
>   Wired Properties
>     Carrier:         on
> 
> 
> ajk at teralehti:~$ 
> 
> Now, this is funny.  The applet offers me a toggle to turn Kiinteä (wired) on.
> If I do that, it shows I'm connected but I also have two dhclients again:
> 
> ajk at teralehti:~$ nm-tool
> 
> NetworkManager Tool
> 
> State: connected (global)
> 
> - Device: wlan0 ----------------------------------------------------------------
>   Type:              802.11 WiFi
>   Driver:            ath9k
>   State:             unavailable
>   Default:           no
>   HW Address:        20:16:D8:B7:57:45
> 
>   Capabilities:
> 
>   Wireless Properties
>     WEP Encryption:  yes
>     WPA Encryption:  yes
>     WPA2 Encryption: yes
> 
>   Wireless Access Points 
> 
> 
> - Device: eth0  [Automaattinen, kiinteä] --------------------------------------
>   Type:              Wired
>   Driver:            r8169
>   State:             connected
>   Default:           yes
>   HW Address:        00:03:0D:5C:C6:6C
> 

Bad timing. I was probably too eager with my upload a few minutes ago
closing this bug. This still looks fishy.

I guess I'll have to setup a test environment to reproduce this this
properly.

Michael



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