[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#596380: network-manager: fails to re-establish system connections after using physical RF KILL switch
Juha Jäykkä
juhaj at iki.fi
Fri Sep 10 20:36:23 UTC 2010
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
-- no debconf information
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