[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#779604: network-manager: NetworkManager crashes on modem hangup

[Nils Dagsson Moskopp]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.9.10.0-6
Followup-For: Bug #779604

Dear Maintainer,

this is becoming annoying. I now do “sudo service network-manager force-reload”
multiple times every day. From my syslog it seems network-manager always says:

--- snib ---
Mar  5 20:04:12 lustschutzbunker dbus[1990]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.NetworkManager' (using servicehelper)
Mar  5 20:04:13 lustschutzbunker dbus[1990]: [system] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager' failed: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1
--- snab ---

I do not know what servicehelper is and could not find such a file or package.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113+nmu3
ii  dbus                   1.8.10-1
ii  init-system-helpers    1.21
ii  isc-dhcp-client        4.3.1-1
ii  libc6                  2.19-13
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.8.12-3
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.102-1
ii  libgcrypt20            1.6.2-4+b1
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.42.1-1
ii  libgnutls-deb0-28      3.3.8-5
ii  libgudev-1.0-0         215-10
ii  libmm-glib0            1.4.0-1
ii  libndp0                1.4-2
ii  libnewt0.52            0.52.17-1+b1
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            0.9.10.0-5
ii  libnm-util2            0.9.10.0-5
ii  libpam-systemd         204-8
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.105-8
ii  libreadline6           6.3-8+b3
ii  libsoup2.4-1           2.48.0-1
ii  libsystemd0            215-10
ii  libteamdctl0           1.12-1
ii  libuuid1               2.25.2-4.1
ii  lsb-base               4.1+Debian13+nmu1
ii  policykit-1            0.105-8
ii  udev                   204-8
ii  wpasupplicant          2.3-1

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  crda            3.13-1
ii  dnsmasq-base    2.72-2
ii  iptables        1.4.21-2+b1
ii  iputils-arping  3:20121221-5+b2
ii  modemmanager    1.4.0-1
ii  ppp             2.4.6-3

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

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