[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#835822: network-manager: wifi network setup fails completely

[nkiesel]

Package: network-manager
Version: 1.2.4-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

network-manager-1.4.0-2 will not allow to connect to Wifi. Downgrading to
1.2.4-2 immediately fixes the problem
and that is repeatable: upgrading to 1.4.0-2 breaks wifi again.

Steps to downgrade were:

sudo dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/network-manager_1.2.4-2_amd64.deb
sudo sudo dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/network-manager-
gnome_1.2.4-1_amd64.deb

journalctl -e shows multiple logs for network manager:

NetworkManager[29012]: <error> [1472400318.1585] platform-linux: do-change-
link[3]: failure changing link: failure 23 (Too many open files in system)
NetworkManager[29012]: <warn>  [1472400318.1585] device (wlan0): set-hw-addr:
failed to set MAC address to BE:EA:1E:BA:CC:1B (scanning) (unspecified)



-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.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                3.115
ii  dbus                   1.10.10-1
ii  init-system-helpers    1.42
ii  libaudit1              1:2.6.6-1
ii  libbluetooth3          5.36-1+b2
ii  libc6                  2.23-5
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.48.1-3
ii  libgnutls30            3.5.3-3
ii  libgudev-1.0-0         230-3
ii  libmm-glib0            1.6.0-1
ii  libndp0                1.6-1
ii  libnewt0.52            0.52.18-3
ii  libnl-3-200            3.2.27-1
ii  libnm0                 1.4.0-2
ii  libpam-systemd         231-5
ii  libpolkit-agent-1-0    0.105-16
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.105-16
ii  libreadline6           6.3-8+b4
ii  libselinux1            2.5-3
ii  libsoup2.4-1           2.54.1-1
ii  libsystemd0            231-5
ii  libteamdctl0           1.26-1
ii  libuuid1               2.28.1-1
ii  lsb-base               9.20160629
ii  policykit-1            0.105-16
ii  udev                   231-5
ii  wpasupplicant          2.5-2+v2.4-2

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  crda             3.13-1+b1
ii  dnsmasq-base     2.76-3
ii  iptables         1.6.0-3
ii  iputils-arping   3:20150815-2
ii  isc-dhcp-client  4.3.4-1
ii  modemmanager     1.6.0-1
ii  ppp              2.4.7-1+2

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

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