[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#845300: /usr/bin/nm-online: nm-online gives wrong status

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

Package: network-manager
Version: 1.4.2-2
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/nm-online

The nm-online utility claims to provide an interface to query online/offline
status for network-manager. But this does not seem to work at all.

Below is the log of my machine, while in Airplace mode. As you can see,
wlan0 is unavailable. But nm-online reports NM as online.

rrs at learner:~$ nmcli 
sysbr0: connected to sysbr0
	bridge, C6:2B:EF:BA:F2:AA, sw, mtu 1500
	inet4 172.16.20.1/16
	inet6 fe80::c42b:efff:feba:f2aa/64

tap0: connected to tap0
	tun, CA:0E:88:74:5A:17, sw, mtu 1500
	master sysbr

wlan0: unavailable
	"Realtek RTL8723BE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter"
	wifi (rtl8723be), 06:57:4B:BF:45:06, hw, mtu 1500

lo: unmanaged
	loopback (unknown), 00:00:00:00:00:00, sw, mtu 65536

Use "nmcli device show" to get complete information about known devices and
"nmcli connection show" to get an overview on active connection profiles.

Consult nmcli(1) and nmcli-examples(5) manual pages for complete usage details.
2016-11-22 / 14:23:35 ♒♒♒  ☺  
rrs at learner:~$ echo $?
0
2016-11-22 / 14:24:05 ♒♒♒  ☺  

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing-debug
  APT policy: (990, 'testing-debug'), (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.8.9brk0+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IN.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_IN.utf8 (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                   1.10.12-1
ii  init-system-helpers    1.46
ii  libaudit1              1:2.6.7-1
ii  libbluetooth3          5.43-1
ii  libc6                  2.24-5
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.50.2-1
ii  libgnutls30            3.5.6-4
ii  libgudev-1.0-0         230-3
ii  libmm-glib0            1.6.2-1
ii  libndp0                1.6-1
ii  libnewt0.52            0.52.19-1
ii  libnl-3-200            3.2.27-1
ii  libnm0                 1.4.2-2
ii  libpam-systemd         232-3
ii  libpolkit-agent-1-0    0.105-17
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.105-17
ii  libreadline7           7.0-1
ii  libselinux1            2.6-3
ii  libsoup2.4-1           2.56.0-1
ii  libsystemd0            232-3
ii  libteamdctl0           1.26-1
ii  libuuid1               2.29-1
ii  lsb-base               9.20161101
ii  policykit-1            0.105-17
ii  udev                   232-3
ii  wpasupplicant          2.5-2+v2.4-3+b1

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  crda             3.13-1+b1
ii  dnsmasq-base     2.76-4
ii  iptables         1.6.0-4
ii  iputils-arping   3:20161105-1
ii  isc-dhcp-client  4.3.5~b1-1
ii  modemmanager     1.6.2-1
ii  ppp              2.4.7-1+4

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

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf changed:
[main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile
[ifupdown]
managed=true


-- no debconf information