[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#925380: network-manager-gnome: ifupdown no longer appears in the applet and no longer does not detects hotplug event

[Jack Underwood]

Package: network-manager-gnome
Version: 1.8.20-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

Sometime in (late) 2018 the NetworkManager stopped showing ifupdown (eth0) in the interfaces, iirc
eth0 would only sometimes appear as a seperate entry to ifupdown (eth0) in the Ethernet Network
section of the applet.  Now when I unplug the ethernet cable eth0 disappears with only a greyed out
"disconnected" appearing in the Ethernet Network section of the applet, and when I plug the cable
back in nothing happens to the applet, and clicking on "Connection Information" says "Error displaying
connection information:" "No valid active connections found!" despite the connection clearly working again.

This severely reduces the functionality of NetworkManager Applet, both as an indicator tool, and when a
network interface needs to get restarted in the case of network issues and debugging said issues.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (650, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome depends on:
ii  dbus-x11 [dbus-session-bus]                  1.12.12-1
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.30.1-2
ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.30.0-2
ii  libayatana-appindicator3-1                   0.5.3-4
ii  libc6                                        2.28-7
ii  libcairo2                                    1.16.0-3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.38.0+dfsg-7
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.58.3-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.24.5-1
ii  libjansson4                                  2.12-1
ii  libmm-glib0                                  1.10.0-1
ii  libnm0                                       1.14.6-2
ii  libnma0                                      1.8.20-1
ii  libnotify4                                   0.7.7-4
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.42.4-6
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                          1.42.4-6
ii  libsecret-1-0                                0.18.7-1
ii  libselinux1                                  2.8-1+b1
ii  lxpolkit [polkit-1-auth-agent]               0.5.3-2
ii  network-manager                              1.14.6-2
ii  policykit-1-gnome [polkit-1-auth-agent]      0.105-7

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome recommends:
ii  gnome-keyring                   3.28.2-2
ii  iso-codes                       4.2-1
ii  mobile-broadband-provider-info  20170903-1
ii  notification-daemon             3.20.0-4

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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