[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#758533: Bug#758533: network-manager: wifi connected, internet connection does not work

[Gilles Filippini]

Control: tag -1 + fixed-upstream

Hi,

On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 01:38:26 +0200 Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
> Am 21.08.2014 20:26, schrieb Russ Allbery:
> > Aug 21 10:33:19 wanderer NetworkManager[642]: <info> dhclient started with pid 17691
> > Aug 21 10:33:19 wanderer NetworkManager[642]: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 3 of 5 (IP Configure Start) complete.
> > Aug 21 10:33:19 wanderer dhclient: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.3.1
> > Aug 21 10:33:19 wanderer NetworkManager[642]: <info> (wlan0): DHCPv4 client pid 17691 exited with status -1
> > Aug 21 10:33:19 wanderer NetworkManager[642]: <warn> DHCP client died abnormally
> > 
> > Downgrading network-manager to 0.9.10.0-1 fixes the problem.  It looks
> > like something went wrong with the NMU.  Copying Micah.
> 
> 
> Russ,
> we just discussed this issue. It's most likely caused by a systemd
> update where we restart journald in postinst.
> That somehow seems to break the stdout->jounal forwarding, e.g. from NM
> to its dhclient child process
> If you restart NetworkManager.service, this will reset the state and fix
> the issue.
> By downgrading to -1, you triggered such a restart of NetworkManager, so
> the downgrade is a red herring.
> 
> To reproduce the problem, you can simply run
> systemctl restart systemd-journald.service
> and then try to re-connect a NM connection and you'll experience the
> same issue even with -1.

I've just been hit by this bug. The RedHat BTS says it is fixed upstream
since september:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1136836#c3

Thanks,

_g

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