[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#785250: network-manager: Wired network that is not managed by NM causes NM to report "offline" state

Wed May 13 20:31:42 UTC 2015

Package: network-manager
Version: 1.0.2-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I have network-manager installed. My box has one wired network connection
that has static address in /etc/network/interfaces and to my understanding
it is not managed by network-manager but instead ifupdown-scripts or
something that is run from init-scripts. My 
/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf looks like

[main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile

[ifupdown]
managed=false

after todays upgrade 1.0.0-5 -> 1.0.2-2 some gnome-related programs
(evolution, in particular) started to report that the network
of the machine is in "offline state" and refused to do anything
over network. In practice this renders evolution useless. 

In /var/log/messages there is lines that might be related:
May 12 21:31:41 fisuvaan gnome-session[5987]: Gjs-Message: JS LOG: Removing a network device that was not added
...
May 13 22:21:54 fisuvaan gnome-session[7809]: (gnome-shell:7895): libnm-glib-WARNING **: Device activation failed: (4) Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

and in /var/log/daemon.log it is said:

May 13 22:34:09 fisuvaan NetworkManager[1361]: <info>  Loaded device plugin: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/NetworkManager/libnm-device-plugin-wifi.so
May 13 22:34:09 fisuvaan systemd[1]: Started Enable support for additional executable binary formats.
May 13 22:34:10 fisuvaan NetworkManager[1361]: <info>  Loaded device plugin: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/NetworkManager/libnm-device-plugin-adsl.so
May 13 22:34:10 fisuvaan speech-dispatcher[1867]: Starting Speech Dispatcher: speech-dispatcher[Wed May 13 22:34:10 2015 : 199020] speechd: Speech Dispatcher 0.8 starting
May 13 22:34:10 fisuvaan NetworkManager[1361]: <info>  Loaded device plugin: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/NetworkManager/libnm-device-plugin-wwan.so
May 13 22:34:10 fisuvaan NetworkManager[1361]: <info>  WiFi enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file
May 13 22:34:10 fisuvaan NetworkManager[1361]: <info>  WWAN enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file
May 13 22:34:10 fisuvaan NetworkManager[1361]: <info>  WiMAX enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file
May 13 22:34:10 fisuvaan NetworkManager[1361]: <info>  Networking is enabled by state file
May 13 22:34:10 fisuvaan NetworkManager[1361]: <info>  (lo): link connected
May 13 22:34:10 fisuvaan NetworkManager[1361]: <info>  (lo): carrier is ON
May 13 22:34:10 fisuvaan NetworkManager[1361]: <info>  (lo): new Generic device (driver: 'unknown' ifindex: 1)
May 13 22:34:10 fisuvaan NetworkManager[1361]: <info>  (lo): exported as /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0
May 13 22:34:10 fisuvaan NetworkManager[1361]: <info>  (eth2): link connected
May 13 22:34:10 fisuvaan NetworkManager[1361]: <info>  (eth2): carrier is ON
May 13 22:34:10 fisuvaan NetworkManager[1361]: <info>  (eth2): new Ethernet device (driver: 'r8169' ifindex: 2)
May 13 22:34:10 fisuvaan NetworkManager[1361]: <info>  (eth2): exported as /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1
May 13 22:34:10 fisuvaan NetworkManager[1361]: <info>  startup complete
May 13 22:34:10 fisuvaan NetworkManager[1361]: <info>  NetworkManager state is now CONNECTED_GLOBAL
...
May 13 22:34:15 fisuvaan NetworkManager[1361]: <info>  ModemManager disappeared from bus
May 13 22:34:15 fisuvaan systemd[1]: Started Modem Manager.
May 13 22:34:15 fisuvaan NetworkManager[1361]: <info>  ModemManager available in the bus

Problem was "fixed" by saying
# /etc/init.d/network-manager stop
# update-rc.d network-manager remove
but I suspect there are debian users who don't know how to do that and 
instead seek problems inside evolution or other affected program. 

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

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113+nmu3
ii  dbus                   1.8.16-1
ii  init-system-helpers    1.23
ii  isc-dhcp-client        4.3.1-6
ii  libbluetooth3          5.23-2+b1
ii  libc6                  2.19-18
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.8.16-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.102-1
ii  libgcrypt20            1.6.3-2
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.44.0-2
ii  libgnutls-deb0-28      3.3.15-2
ii  libgudev-1.0-0         215-17
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  libnm0                 1.0.2-2
ii  libpam-systemd         215-17
ii  libpolkit-agent-1-0    0.105-8
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.105-8
ii  libreadline6           6.3-8+b3
ii  libsoup2.4-1           2.48.0-1
ii  libsystemd0            215-17
ii  libteamdctl0           1.17-1
ii  libuuid1               2.25.2-6
ii  lsb-base               4.1+Debian13+nmu1
ii  policykit-1            0.105-8
ii  udev                   215-17
ii  wpasupplicant          2.3-2

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  crda            3.13-1
ii  dnsmasq-base    2.72-3.1
ii  iptables        1.4.21-2+b1
ii  iputils-arping  3:20121221-5+b2
ii  modemmanager    1.4.0-1
ii  ppp             2.4.6-3.1

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

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