[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#838826: Bug#838826: network-manager kills network on upgrade

[Michael Biebl]

On Sun, 25 Sep 2016 15:45:54 +0200 Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
> Control: tags -1 moreinfo unreproducible
> 
> Am 25.09.2016 um 14:59 schrieb Juha Jäykkä:
> > Package: network-manager
> > Version: 1.4.0-4
> > Severity: serious
> > Justification: makes the system unusable
> > 
> > Dear Maintainer,
> > 
> > Upon upgrade to 1.4.0-4, network-manager disconnects network connections
> > and does not reconnect (as far as I can tell, it does not even try).
> > 
> > This is unacceptable as it makes remote management of systems impossible.
> > 
> > Serious because a remote system become completely unusable after this until
> > someone visits it physically (if one does not have suitable IPMI or something
> > similar in place).
> > 
> > This is also a regression from several years ago, when every upgrade and
> > restart on network-manager disconnected the network before reconnecting them
> > again. At least back then it managed to reconnect, so one only needed to run
> > upgrades in a screen (sensible precaution for remote upgrades anyway). Now
> > it does not reconnect, ever, so screen does not help.
> 
> Is this connection via WLAN or LAN?
> 
> Is this problem reproducible if you run systemctl restart NetworkManager?
> 
> Could you send me the (verbose) log file of NetworkManager
> https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/ModemManager/Debugging/
> 

Any news? Can you provide the requested information?


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