[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#496887: network-manager: disables working interfaces it can't administer

[Michael Below]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.6.6-2
Severity: important

Hi,
I have an old PCI ethernet card run by the ne2k-pci kernel driver. Before
installing NetworkManager, this card was autoconfigured by the Debian
installer via an entry in /etc/network/interfaces to use DHCP, and 
everything worked alright. After installing NetworkManager, the card is
initially configured using during normal boot, and then NetworkManager starts 
up, takes over, finds that the card has no carrier detect and then disables 
it. This is obviously wrong, and there seems to be no easy way to work 
around it. The recommended way of action for similar cases in the Ubuntu 
forums is uninstalling NetworkManager, and that's what I did. 
So the package seems essentially harmful for people with network 
interfaces NetworkManager can't deal with.

Thank you for your work!

Michael Below

Some snippets from my syslog:

Aug 28 10:29:54 tucholsky avahi-daemon[3450]: avahi-daemon 0.6.22 starting
up.
Aug 28 10:29:54 tucholsky avahi-daemon[3450]: Successfully called chroot().
Aug 28 10:29:54 tucholsky avahi-daemon[3450]: Successfully dropped remaining
capabilities.
Aug 28 10:29:54 tucholsky avahi-daemon[3450]: No service file found in
/etc/avahi/services.
Aug 28 10:29:54 tucholsky avahi-daemon[3450]: Joining mDNS multicast group
/on interface eth0.IPv6 with address fe80::280:48ff:feca:a535.
Aug 28 10:29:54 tucholsky avahi-daemon[3450]: New relevant interface
/eth0.IPv6 for mDNS.
Aug 28 10:29:54 tucholsky avahi-daemon[3450]: Joining mDNS multicast group
/on interface eth0.IPv4 with address 192.168.178.25.
Aug 28 10:29:54 tucholsky avahi-daemon[3450]: New relevant interface
/eth0.IPv4 for mDNS.
Aug 28 10:29:54 tucholsky avahi-daemon[3450]: Network interface enumeration
/completed.
Aug 28 10:29:54 tucholsky avahi-daemon[3450]: Registering new address record
/for fe80::280:48ff:feca:a535 on eth0.*.
Aug 28 10:29:54 tucholsky avahi-daemon[3450]: Registering new address record
/for 192.168.178.25 on eth0.IPv4.
Aug 28 10:29:54 tucholsky avahi-daemon[3450]: Registering HINFO record with
/values 'I686'/'LINUX'.
Aug 28 10:29:54 tucholsky avahi-dnsconfd[3462]: Successfully connected to
/Avahi daemon.
Aug 28 10:29:54 tucholsky dhcdbd: Started up.
Aug 28 10:29:55 tucholsky avahi-daemon[3450]: Server startup complete. Host
name is tucholsky.local. Local service cookie is 25709544.


Aug 28 10:30:01 tucholsky NetworkManager: <info>  starting... 
Aug 28 10:30:01 tucholsky NetworkManager: <info>  New VPN service 'vpnc'
(org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc). 
Aug 28 10:30:01 tucholsky NetworkManager: <info>  New VPN service 'openvpn'
(org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn). 
Aug 28 10:30:02 tucholsky NetworkManager: <info>  eth0: Driver 'ne2k-pci'
does not support carrier detection. ^IYou must switch to it manually. 
Aug 28 10:30:02 tucholsky NetworkManager: <info>  nm_device_init(): waiting
for device's worker thread to start 
Aug 28 10:30:02 tucholsky ntpd[3438]: synchronized to 88.198.18.245, stratum
3
Aug 28 10:30:02 tucholsky ntpd[3438]: time reset +0.210506 s
Aug 28 10:30:02 tucholsky ntpd[3438]: kernel time sync status change 0001
Aug 28 10:30:02 tucholsky NetworkManager: <info>  nm_device_init(): device's
worker thread started, continuing. 
Aug 28 10:30:02 tucholsky NetworkManager: <info>  Now managing wired
Ethernet (802.3) device 'eth0'. 
Aug 28 10:30:02 tucholsky NetworkManager: <info>  Deactivating device eth0. 
Aug 28 10:30:02 tucholsky avahi-daemon[3450]: Withdrawing address record for
192.168.178.25 on eth0.
Aug 28 10:30:02 tucholsky avahi-daemon[3450]: Leaving mDNS multicast group
on interface eth0.IPv4 with address 192.168.178.25.
Aug 28 10:30:02 tucholsky avahi-daemon[3450]: Interface eth0.IPv4 no longer
relevant for mDNS.
Aug 28 10:30:02 tucholsky avahi-daemon[3450]: Withdrawing address record for
fe80::280:48ff:feca:a535 on eth0.
Aug 28 10:30:02 tucholsky avahi-daemon[3450]: Leaving mDNS multicast group
on interface eth0.IPv6 with address fe80::280:48ff:feca:a535.
Aug 28 10:30:02 tucholsky avahi-daemon[3450]: Interface eth0.IPv6 no longer
relevant for mDNS.
Aug 28 10:30:05 tucholsky ntpd[3438]: sendto(88.198.18.245) (fd=21): Invalid
argument



Aug 28 10:32:44 tucholsky dhclient: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client
V3.1.1
Aug 28 10:32:44 tucholsky dhclient: Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems
Consortium.
Aug 28 10:32:44 tucholsky dhclient: All rights reserved.
Aug 28 10:32:44 tucholsky dhclient: For info, please visit
http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
Aug 28 10:32:44 tucholsky dhclient: 
Aug 28 10:32:45 tucholsky dhclient: Listening on LPF/eth0/00:80:48:ca:a5:35
Aug 28 10:32:45 tucholsky dhclient: Sending on   LPF/eth0/00:80:48:ca:a5:35
Aug 28 10:32:45 tucholsky dhclient: Sending on   Socket/fallback
Aug 28 10:32:46 tucholsky dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255
port 67
Aug 28 10:32:46 tucholsky dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.178.1
Aug 28 10:32:46 tucholsky avahi-daemon[3450]: Joining mDNS multicast group
on interface eth0.IPv4 with address 192.168.178.25.
Aug 28 10:32:46 tucholsky avahi-daemon[3450]: New relevant interface
eth0.IPv4 for mDNS.
Aug 28 10:32:46 tucholsky avahi-daemon[3450]: Registering new address record
for 192.168.178.25 on eth0.IPv4.
Aug 28 10:32:46 tucholsky dhclient: bound to 192.168.178.25 -- renewal in
399454 seconds.




 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash