[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#781007: Bug#781007: network-manager has an 128 max connections limit

[Michael Biebl]

Control: forcemerge 773525 -1

Am 23.03.2015 um 06:37 schrieb Faidon Liambotis:
> 
> I have noticed some odd behavior, with Network Manager not showing one
> of my GSM providers on the tray icon at random. Then today, I wanted to
> edit one of my connections to change the DNS server list and hit "Edit
> connections" (which spawns nm-connection-editor) and could not find it.
> 
> Repeated invocations of nm-connection-editor showed different
> connections being listed -- I even got the connection I wanted at some
> point. I initially thought it was an NM GUI bug, so I tried both nmtui
> and nmcli and the same thing happened: every time I called them I could
> see a list of connections but somewhat different every time.
> 
> Then... I thought of counting them: it seems that "nmcli c |wc -l"
> consistently reports back "129" (header line + 128 connections). Saving
> + diffing the output, though, seems to indicate that I get a different
> list of 128 saved connections every time I call it (I have lots of them
> as this includes a lot of random hotspots I've picked up while
> travelling).
> 
> This is quite an annoying limitation and manifests quite badly in a hard
> to debug way. I could see this being triaged as serious as well -- the
> only reason I didn't is that probably not a lot of people have > 128
> connections saved.
> 
> I'd prefer if I didn't list my connections here for privacy reasons, but
> do let me know if there's anything you want to run on the system itself
> for debugging purposes.

Looks like a duplicate of #773525.
Please test, if the latest upstream version 1.0.0 (available from
experimental) fixes the problem. If not, please file a bug upstream.

Thanks,
Michael



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