[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#743128: network-manager: NM does not work (without systemd)

[Ralf Jung]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.9.8.8-4
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

the current unstable version of NM does not work: The NM frontend
does not show any connections (even though NM prints to syslog that
they were loaded from /etc/NetworkManager). It's also not possible
to add a new connection, so I had do downgrade to an elder version
to get any connecitivty.

The issue is also appearant with nmcli: Usually, "nmcli c" lists
the wireless networks I stored, but with the current version it says

  $ nmcli c

  ** (process:3523): WARNING **: Could not create object for /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/2: No session found for uid 1000 (unknown)

  ** (process:3523): WARNING **: handle_property_changed: failed to update property 'available-connections' of object type NMDeviceWifi.
  NAME                      UUID                                   TYPE              TIMESTAMP-REAL

And nothing more.

Note that I do not have systemd installed, as I am still using
sysvinit. I am very willing to migrate to systemd, but last time
I tried there still were some issues severe enough that I went back
to sysvinit.
In any case, as NM just Recommends: systemd, it should still be
functional without using systemd.

Kind regards
Ralf


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash