[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#555624: network-manager: pppd connections get killed (dbus communication problem)

[Christoph Haas]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.7.1-2
Severity: normal

After I create a PPP connection (UMTS here) the connection gets killed
approximately 12 seconds after being established. The syslog showed:

NetworkManager: <WARN>  pppd_timed_out(): Looks like pppd didn't initialize our dbus module

Apparently dbus couldn't talk to the Network Manager somehow. I found
a workaround in Ubuntu's bug report #371281 (reply #3) by removing
the "deny" sections from /etc/dbus-1/system.d/NetworkManager.conf.

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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                3.111             add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                   1.2.16-2          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  dhcp3-client           3.1.2p1-2         DHCP client
ii  hal                    0.5.13-3          Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  ifupdown               0.6.9             high level tools to configure netw
ii  libc6                  2.10.1-5          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.16-2          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.82-2            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11            1.4.4-4           LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.22.2-2          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnutls26            2.8.4-2           the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgpg-error0          1.6-1             library for common error values an
ii  libhal1                0.5.13-3          Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libnl1                 1.1-5             library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-glib0            0.7.1-2           network management framework (GLib
ii  libnm-util1            0.7.1-2           network management framework (shar
ii  libpolkit-dbus2        0.9-4             library for accessing PolicyKit vi
ii  libpolkit2             0.9-4             library for accessing PolicyKit
ii  libtasn1-3             2.3-1             Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libudev0               146-5             libudev shared library
ii  libuuid1               2.16.1-4          Universally Unique ID library
ii  lsb-base               3.2-23            Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  wpasupplicant          0.6.9-3           client support for WPA and WPA2 (I
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  dnsmasq-base               2.51-1        A small caching DNS proxy and DHCP
ii  iptables                   1.4.4-2       administration tools for packet fi
ii  network-manager-gnome      0.7.1-1       network management framework (GNOM
ii  policykit                  0.9-4         framework for managing administrat
ii  ppp                        2.4.4rel-10.1 Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - da

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
ii  avahi-autoipd                 0.6.25-1   Avahi IPv4LL network address confi

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