[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#947283: network-manager: fails to connect via Wi-Fi with "selecting lease failed"

[brian m. carlson]

On 2019-12-23 at 22:25:52, brian m. carlson wrote:
> Package: network-manager
> Version: 1.22.0-1
> Severity: important
> 
> When connecting to a Starbucks Wi-Fi network (open Wi-Fi network with
> captive portal), Network Manager refuses to get an IPv4 address over
> DHCP with a message in the logs that says "selecting lease failed: 12".
> This machine has not previously been connected to this network.
> Downgrading to 1.20.8-1 causes things to work again, but 1.22.0-1 does
> not work even if I reboot and delete all the saved leases from
> /var/lib/NetworkManager.
> 
> I don't see the problem on my home network, with uses WPA2-EAP with
> EAP-TTLS and PAP.  However, I had connected to that network before
> installing 1.22.0, so it's possible that the issue is with new networks.

I've determined this problem is due to the internal DHCP client.
Switching back to dhclient as the DHCP client works, so I've done that.

I've been able to reproduce this on two separate sid systems.
-- 
brian m. carlson: Houston, Texas, US
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