[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#756161: network-manager: incorrectly thinks I'm connected just because libvirt bridge is up

[brian m. carlson]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.9.10.0-1
Severity: normal

I have libvirt installed on my laptop so that I can easily manage my KVM
virtual machines.  This results in a virbr0 device that is up all the
time.  It's assigned a static RFC 1918 IP address that fits in with the
rest of my network.

Most of the rest of the time, I use wlan0 to connect to a wi-fi network,
whether I'm at home or not.  If the wi-fi is not working (say, I'm on an
airplane), network-manager still thinks I'm connected just because
virbr0 is up.

This isn't very useful, and it wasn't until a recent network-manager
version that it even considered virbr0 at all.  (I presume libvirt took
care of everything before.)  network-manager should just ignore this
device and not falsely claim that the network is up.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16-rc5-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                   1.8.6-1
ii  init-system-helpers    1.20
ii  isc-dhcp-client        4.3.0+dfsg-2
ii  libc6                  2.19-7
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.8.6-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.102-1
ii  libgcrypt11            1.5.3-4
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.40.0-3
ii  libgnutls-deb0-28      3.3.3-1
ii  libgudev-1.0-0         208-6
ii  libmm-glib0            1.2.0-1
ii  libndp0                1.3-1
ii  libnewt0.52            0.52.17-1
ii  libnl-3-200            3.2.24-2
ii  libnl-genl-3-200       3.2.24-2
ii  libnl-route-3-200      3.2.24-2
ii  libnm-glib4            0.9.10.0-1
ii  libnm-util2            0.9.10.0-1
ii  libpam-systemd         208-6
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.105-6.1
ii  libreadline6           6.3-6
ii  libsoup2.4-1           2.46.0-2
ii  libsystemd-daemon0     208-6
ii  libsystemd-login0      208-6
ii  libuuid1               2.20.1-5.8
ii  lsb-base               4.1+Debian13
ii  policykit-1            0.105-6.1
ii  udev                   208-6
ii  wpasupplicant          1.1-1

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  crda          1.1.2-1
ii  dnsmasq-base  2.71-1
ii  iptables      1.4.21-2
ii  modemmanager  1.2.0-1
ii  ppp           2.4.6-2

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

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf changed:
[main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile
no-auto-default=00:16:d3:b3:80:1e,ee:b0:3a:d2:89:45,F0:DE:F1:B8:36:FD,
[ifupdown]
managed=false


-- no debconf information

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