[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#838096: network-manager drives broadcom driver into confused state

[Eduard Bloch]

Hallo,
* Michael Biebl [Sat, Sep 17 2016, 02:10:25PM]:
> Control: owner -1 bloch at unix-ag.uni-kl.de
> 
> 
> [Please always CC the maintainer of the package you are going to
> reassign the package to. Otherwise she/he get's a contextless control
> message which is highly annoying]

Right, right.

> Could you add
> 
> [device]
> wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=no
> 
> to your NetworkManager.conf and see if that changes anything.
> 
> This smells like [1]

Interesting, it partly helps! I can select hotspots with nmcli now and
it seems to be ok so far.

However, now nm-applet does not work anymore. I tried to investigate
strace output and couldn't see the reason. It simply shuts down and
exits shortly after some dbus communication. I tried to trace that
communication but the results are inconclusive (at least IMHO):

method call time=1474147396.626442 sender=:1.32 -> destination=org.freedesktop.DBus serial=1 path=/org/freedesktop/DBus; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=Hello
method return time=1474147396.626495 sender=org.freedesktop.DBus -> destination=:1.32 serial=1 reply_serial=1
   string ":1.32"
signal time=1474147396.626524 sender=org.freedesktop.DBus -> destination=(null destination) serial=34 path=/org/freedesktop/DBus; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=NameOwnerChanged
   string ":1.32"
   string ""
   string ":1.32"
signal time=1474147396.626561 sender=org.freedesktop.DBus -> destination=:1.32 serial=2 path=/org/freedesktop/DBus; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=NameAcquired
   string ":1.32"
method call time=1474147396.628220 sender=:1.32 -> destination=org.freedesktop.DBus serial=2 path=/org/freedesktop/DBus; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=RequestName
   string "org.freedesktop.network-manager-applet"
   uint32 4
method return time=1474147396.628298 sender=org.freedesktop.DBus -> destination=:1.32 serial=3 reply_serial=2
   uint32 3
method call time=1474147396.629530 sender=:1.32 -> destination=org.freedesktop.DBus serial=3 path=/org/freedesktop/DBus; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=AddMatch
   string "type='signal',sender='org.freedesktop.network-manager-applet',interface='org.gtk.Actions',member='Changed',path='/org/freedesktop/network_manager_applet'"
method return time=1474147396.629586 sender=org.freedesktop.DBus -> destination=:1.32 serial=4 reply_serial=3
method call time=1474147396.630210 sender=:1.32 -> destination=org.freedesktop.network-manager-applet serial=4 path=/org/freedesktop/network_manager_applet; interface=org.gtk.Actions; member=DescribeAll
method return time=1474147396.630559 sender=:1.5 -> destination=:1.32 serial=85 reply_serial=4
   array [
   ]
method call time=1474147396.631686 sender=:1.32 -> destination=org.freedesktop.network-manager-applet serial=5 path=/org/freedesktop/network_manager_applet; interface=org.gtk.Application; member=Activate
   array [
      dict entry(
         string "cwd"
         variant             array of bytes "/tmp" + \0
      )
   ]
signal time=1474147396.641525 sender=org.freedesktop.DBus -> destination=:1.32 serial=5 path=/org/freedesktop/DBus; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=NameLost
   string ":1.32"
signal time=1474147396.641597 sender=org.freedesktop.DBus -> destination=(null destination) serial=35 path=/org/freedesktop/DBus; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=NameOwnerChanged
   string ":1.32"
   string ":1.32"
   string ""

Regards,
Eduard.
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