[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#596380: network-manager: fails to re-establish system connections after using physical RF KILL switch

[Juha Jäykkä]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.8.1-2+b1
Severity: normal


Some laptops, like my Lenovo, have a physical RF kill switch. It is a nice feature
on a plane etc, but network-manager cannot handle its use.

If I switch off the wireless from the physical switch, and then back on, nm is sometimes
unable to re-establish the (system) connection. It does not happen on each switch, but
once it happens, it keeps on happening until nm is restarted.

All I get is two lines in syslog:

NetworkManager[24082]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state:  starting -> ready
NetworkManager[24082]: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 2 -> 3 (reason 42)

Restarting network-manager solves the problem, but that is ridiculous since
the whole point of using nm in the first place is to remove the necessity to have
root access to reconfigure networks. (This particular connection needs to be system
connection, though.)

Cheers,
Juha

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.35-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.112      add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                          1.2.24-3   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  isc-dhcp-client               4.1.1-P1-9 ISC DHCP client
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-2   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.24-3   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2              0.88-2     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11                   1.4.5-2    LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.24.1-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnutls26                   2.8.6-1    the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgudev-1.0-0                161-1      GObject-based wrapper library for 
ii  libnl1                        1.1-5      library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-glib2                   0.8.1-2+b1 network management framework (GLib
ii  libnm-util1                   0.8.1-2+b1 network management framework (shar
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0         0.96-2     PolicyKit Authorization API
ii  libuuid1                      2.17.2-3.1 Universally Unique ID library
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-23.1   Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  udev                          161-1      /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  wpasupplicant                 0.6.10-2   client support for WPA and WPA2 (I

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  dns 2.55-1                               A small caching DNS proxy and DHCP
ii  ipt 1.4.9-1                              administration tools for packet fi
ii  mod 0.4+git.20100624t180933.6e79d15-1+b1 D-Bus service for managing modems
ii  net 0.8.1-1                              network management framework (GNOM
ii  net 1:0.9~svn1141976-1                   KDE system tray applet for control
ii  pol 0.96-2                               framework for managing administrat
ii  ppp 2.4.5-4                              Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - da

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
pn  avahi-autoipd                 <none>     (no description available)

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf changed:
[main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile
[ifupdown]
managed=true

/etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/01ifupdown changed:
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
    echo "$0: called with no interface" 1>&2
    exit 1;
fi
export IFACE="$1"
export LOGICAL="$1"
export ADDRFAM="NetworkManager"
export METHOD="NetworkManager"
export VERBOSITY="0"
case "$2" in
    up)
	export MODE="start"
	export PHASE="post-up"
	exec run-parts /etc/network/if-up.d
	;;
    down)
	export MODE="stop"
	export PHASE="pre-down"
	exec run-parts /etc/network/if-down.d
	;;
    pre-up)
	export MODE="start"
	export PHASE="pre-up"
	exec run-parts /etc/network/if-pre-up.d
	;;
    post-down)
	export MODE="stop"
	export PHASE="post-down"
	exec run-parts /etc/network/if-post-down.d
	;;
    vpn-up)
	echo 'VPN - Doing nothing'
	;;
    *)
	echo "$0: called with unknown action \`$2'" 1>&2
	exit 1
	;;
esac


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