[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#742978: network-manager: NetworkManager GLib-GObject-CRITICAL Segmentation fault

[Brent Clark]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.9.8.8-4
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?
    I run Debian unstable, did an upgrade.
   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
    Wireless is not working.
   * What was the outcome of this action?
    Wireless is not working.
   * What outcome did you expect instead?

Running /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon, I get:

root at dellie:~# /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon
NetworkManager[6177]: <info> NetworkManager (version 0.9.8.8) is starting...
NetworkManager[6177]: <info> Read config file /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf
NetworkManager[6177]: <info> WEXT support is enabled
NetworkManager[6177]: <info> VPN: loaded org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp
NetworkManager[6177]: <info> VPN: loaded org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn
NetworkManager[6177]:    SCPlugin-Ifupdown: init!
NetworkManager[6177]:    SCPlugin-Ifupdown: update_system_hostname
NetworkManager[6177]:    SCPluginIfupdown: guessed connection type (eth0) = 802-3-ethernet
NetworkManager[6177]:    SCPlugin-Ifupdown: update_connection_setting_from_if_block: name:eth0, type:802-3-ethernet, id:Ifupdown (eth0), uuid: 681b428f-beaf-8932-dce4-687ed5bae28e
NetworkManager[6177]:    SCPlugin-Ifupdown: adding eth0 to connections
NetworkManager[6177]:    SCPlugin-Ifupdown: adding iface eth0 to eni_ifaces
NetworkManager[6177]:    SCPlugin-Ifupdown: autoconnect
NetworkManager[6177]:    SCPluginIfupdown: management mode: unmanaged
NetworkManager[6177]:    SCPlugin-Ifupdown: devices added (path: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.3/0000:25:00.0/net/wlan0, iface: wlan0)
NetworkManager[6177]:    SCPlugin-Ifupdown: device added (path: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.3/0000:25:00.0/net/wlan0, iface: wlan0): no ifupdown configuration found.
NetworkManager[6177]:    SCPlugin-Ifupdown: devices added (path: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.5/0000:26:00.0/net/eth0, iface: eth0)
NetworkManager[6177]:    SCPluginIfupdown: locking wired connection setting
NetworkManager[6177]:    SCPlugin-Ifupdown: devices added (path: /sys/devices/virtual/net/lo, iface: lo)
NetworkManager[6177]:    SCPlugin-Ifupdown: device added (path: /sys/devices/virtual/net/lo, iface: lo): no ifupdown configuration found.
NetworkManager[6177]:    SCPlugin-Ifupdown: end _init.
NetworkManager[6177]: <info> Loaded plugin ifupdown: (C) 2008 Canonical Ltd.  To report bugs please use the NetworkManager mailing list.
NetworkManager[6177]: <info> Loaded plugin keyfile: (c) 2007 - 2010 Red Hat, Inc.  To report bugs please use the NetworkManager mailing list.
NetworkManager[6177]:    Ifupdown: get unmanaged devices count: 1
NetworkManager[6177]:    SCPlugin-Ifupdown: (31796480) ... get_connections.
NetworkManager[6177]:    SCPlugin-Ifupdown: (31796480) ... get_connections (managed=false): return empty list.

Cut short the list of parsing various wireless.

NetworkManager[6177]:    keyfile: parsing Auto clarkwireless ... 
NetworkManager[6177]:    keyfile:     read connection 'Auto clarkwireless'
NetworkManager[6177]:    Ifupdown: get unmanaged devices count: 1
NetworkManager[6177]: <info> monitoring kernel firmware directory '/lib/firmware'.
NetworkManager[6177]: <info> monitoring ifupdown state file '/run/network/ifstate'.

(NetworkManager:6177): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_type_instance_get_private: assertion 'instance != NULL && instance->g_class != NULL' failed
Segmentation fault


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

Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_ZA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_ZA.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                   1.8.0-3
ii  init-system-helpers    1.18
ii  isc-dhcp-client        4.2.4-7
ii  libc6                  2.18-4
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.8.0-3
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.102-1
ii  libgcrypt11            1.5.3-4
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.38.2-5
ii  libgnutls26            2.12.23-13
ii  libgudev-1.0-0         204-8
ii  libmm-glib0            1.0.0-4
ii  libnl-3-200            3.2.21-1
ii  libnl-genl-3-200       3.2.21-1
ii  libnl-route-3-200      3.2.21-1
ii  libnm-glib4            0.9.8.8-4
ii  libnm-util2            0.9.8.8-4
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.105-4
ii  libsoup2.4-1           2.44.2-1
ii  libsystemd-login0      204-8
ii  libuuid1               2.20.1-5.7
ii  lsb-base               4.1+Debian12
ii  udev                   204-8
ii  wpasupplicant          1.1-1

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  crda          1.1.2-1
ii  dnsmasq-base  2.68-1
ii  iptables      1.4.21-1
ii  modemmanager  1.0.0-4
ii  policykit-1   0.105-4
ii  ppp           2.4.5+git20130610-4
ii  systemd       204-8

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
ii  avahi-autoipd  0.6.31-4

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