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

[Michael Biebl]

Am 13.05.2015 um 22:31 schrieb Antti Järvinen:
> 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. 

...

> 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

Hm, so network-manager reports the online state as "CONNECTED_GLOBAL".
So it's unclear to me, why evolution thinks you are offline. Maybe it's
a bug in evolution, and not network-manager?


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