[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#865013: network-manager-gnome: Consistent segfault when connecting to WPA2 network

[Fred Barclay]

Package: network-manager-gnome
Version: 1.4.6-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,
After upgrading network-manager-gnome to 1.8.2-1, the network manager applet
segfaults every time I attempt to connect to a WPA network.

Sample output:
$ nm-applet
Segmentation fault


$ gdb nm-applet
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Reading symbols from nm-applet...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) start
Function "main" not defined.
Make breakpoint pending on future shared library load? (y or [n])
Starting program: /usr/bin/nm-applet
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
[New Thread 0x7fffebea6700 (LWP 2912)]
[New Thread 0x7fffeb6a5700 (LWP 2913)]
[New Thread 0x7fffea625700 (LWP 2914)]
[New Thread 0x7fffe9b5a700 (LWP 2915)]

Thread 1 "nm-applet" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007ffff7ba87a2 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnma.so.0
(gdb) c
Continuing.
Couldn't get registers: No such process.
Couldn't get registers: No such process.
Couldn't get registers: No such process.
(gdb) [Thread 0x7fffe9b5a700 (LWP 2915) exited]
[Thread 0x7fffea625700 (LWP 2914) exited]
[Thread 0x7fffeb6a5700 (LWP 2913) exited]
[Thread 0x7fffebea6700 (LWP 2912) exited]

Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
The program no longer exists

Attempting to dpkg-reconfigure network-manager-gnome and libnma0 had no effect.

Downgrading network-manager-gnome and libnma0 to 1.4.6-1 via `dpkg -i
/var/cache/apt/archives/network-manager-gnome_1.4.6-1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libnma0_1.4.6-1_amd64.deb`, and restarting nm-applet,
immediately restored the ability to connect to the network.

I've only been able to test on a single WPA network.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=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-gnome depends on:
ii  dbus-user-session [default-dbus-session-bus]  1.10.18-1
ii  dbus-x11 [dbus-session-bus]                   1.10.18-1
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]   0.26.0-2+b1
ii  libatk1.0-0                                   2.22.0-1
ii  libc6                                         2.24-11
ii  libcairo2                                     1.14.8-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                            2.36.5-2
ii  libglib2.0-0                                  2.50.3-2
ii  libgtk-3-0                                    3.22.12-1
ii  libjansson4                                   2.9-1
ii  libmm-glib0                                   1.6.8-1
ii  libnm0                                        1.8.0-4
ii  libnma0                                       1.4.6-1
ii  libnotify4                                    0.7.7-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0                                1.40.5-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                           1.40.5-1
ii  libsecret-1-0                                 0.18.5-3.1
ii  mate-polkit [polkit-1-auth-agent]             1.16.0-2
ii  network-manager                               1.8.0-4

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome recommends:
pn  gnome-keyring                                   <none>
ii  iso-codes                                       3.75-1
ii  mate-notification-daemon [notification-daemon]  1.16.1-1
ii  mobile-broadband-provider-info                  20161204-1
ii  notification-daemon                             3.20.0-1+b1

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome suggests:
pn  network-manager-openconnect-gnome  <none>
pn  network-manager-openvpn-gnome      <none>
pn  network-manager-pptp-gnome         <none>
pn  network-manager-vpnc-gnome         <none>

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