[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#513906: network-manager: Network Manager assertion fails following USB device sytate change

[Tim Wootton]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.7.0-1
Severity: important



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                3.110             add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                   1.2.1-5           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  hal                    0.5.11-8          Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  ifupdown               0.6.8+nmu1        high level tools to configure netw
ii  libc6                  2.7-18            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.1-5           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.76-1            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11            1.4.1-1           LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.16.6-1          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnutls26            2.4.2-4           the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgpg-error0          1.4-2             library for common error values an
ii  libhal1                0.5.11-8          Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libnl1                 1.1-3             library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-glib0            0.7.0-1           network management framework (GLib
ii  libnm-util1            0.7.0-1           network management framework (shar
ii  libpolkit-dbus2        0.9-2             library for accessing PolicyKit vi
ii  libpolkit2             0.9-2             library for accessing PolicyKit
ii  libtasn1-3             1.4-1             Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libuuid1               1.41.3-1          universally unique id library
ii  lsb-base               3.2-20            Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  wpasupplicant          0.6.4-3           Client support for WPA and WPA2 (I
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  network-manager-gnome      0.7.0-1       network management framework (GNOM
ii  policykit                  0.9-2         framework for managing administrat
ii  ppp                        2.4.4rel-10.1 Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - da

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

-- no debconf information

Following a 3G USB devide state change, network-manager has to be 
restarted in order to pick the device back up again. The following trace 
is from the syslog, I suspect the assertion failures at the end may be 
significant:

Jan 30 18:40:52 fordprefect NetworkManager: <info>  (ttyUSB0): device 
state change: 3 -> 4
Jan 30 18:40:52 fordprefect NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ttyUSB0) 
Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) scheduled...
Jan 30 18:40:52 fordprefect NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ttyUSB0) 
Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) started...
Jan 30 18:40:52 fordprefect NetworkManager: <debug> [1233340852.342474] 
nm_serial_device_open(): (ttyUSB0) opening device...
Jan 30 18:40:52 fordprefect NetworkManager: <WARN>  
nm_serial_device_open(): (ttyUSB0) cannot control device (errno 6)
Jan 30 18:40:52 fordprefect NetworkManager: <info>  (ttyUSB0): device 
state change: 4 -> 9
Jan 30 18:40:52 fordprefect NetworkManager: <debug> [1233340852.343517] 
nm_serial_device_close(): Closing device 'ttyUSB0'
Jan 30 18:40:52 fordprefect NetworkManager: <info>  Marking connection 
'3 Mobile' invalid.
Jan 30 18:40:52 fordprefect NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ttyUSB0) 
failed.
Jan 30 18:40:52 fordprefect NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ttyUSB0) 
Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) complete.
Jan 30 18:40:52 fordprefect NetworkManager: <info>  (ttyUSB0): device 
state change: 9 -> 3
Jan 30 18:40:52 fordprefect NetworkManager: <info>  (ttyUSB0): 
deactivating device (reason: 0).
Jan 30 18:40:52 fordprefect NetworkManager: 
nm_system_device_flush_ip4_routes_with_iface: assertion `iface_idx >= 0' 
failed
Jan 30 18:40:52 fordprefect NetworkManager: 
nm_system_device_flush_ip4_addresses_with_iface: assertion `iface_idx >= 
0' failed