[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#766900: network-manager: postinst fails to restart NM

[Chris Carr]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.9.10.0-3
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

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   * What led up to the situation?

sudo apt-get upgrade tried to install new version of NM:

Setting up network-manager (0.9.10.0-3) ...
Job for NetworkManager.service failed. See 'systemctl status NetworkManager.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript network-manager, action "restart" failed.
dpkg: error processing package network-manager (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 network-manager
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

After apt-get upgrade failed I manually tried

sudo apt-get -f install

and

sudo invoke-rc.d network-manager restart


   * What was the outcome of this action?

apt-get -f install failed with identical error:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
Setting up network-manager (0.9.10.0-3) ...
Job for NetworkManager.service failed. See 'systemctl status NetworkManager.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript network-manager, action "restart" failed.
dpkg: error processing package network-manager (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 network-manager
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

invoke-rc.d network-manager restart completed gracefully


   * What outcome did you expect instead?

I expected the upgrade (or the -f install) to complete installation properly.


Kind regards,

Chris

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

Kernel: Linux 3.14-2-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113+nmu3
ii  dbus                   1.8.8-2
ii  init-system-helpers    1.21
ii  isc-dhcp-client        4.3.1-4
ii  libc6                  2.19-11
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.8.8-2
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.102-1
ii  libgcrypt20            1.6.2-3
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.42.0-2
ii  libgnutls-deb0-28      3.3.8-3
ii  libgudev-1.0-0         215-5+b1
ii  libmm-glib0            1.4.0-1
ii  libndp0                1.4-2
ii  libnewt0.52            0.52.17-1
ii  libnl-3-200            3.2.24-2
ii  libnl-genl-3-200       3.2.24-2
ii  libnl-route-3-200      3.2.24-2
ii  libnm-glib4            0.9.10.0-3
ii  libnm-util2            0.9.10.0-3
ii  libpam-systemd         215-5+b1
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.105-7
ii  libreadline6           6.3-8
ii  libsoup2.4-1           2.48.0-1
ii  libsystemd0            215-5+b1
ii  libteamdctl0           1.12-1
ii  libuuid1               2.25.1-5
ii  lsb-base               4.1+Debian13
ii  policykit-1            0.105-7
ii  udev                   215-5+b1
ii  wpasupplicant          2.3-1

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  crda          3.13-1
ii  dnsmasq-base  2.72-2
ii  iptables      1.4.21-2
ii  modemmanager  1.4.0-1
ii  ppp           2.4.6-3

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
pn  avahi-autoipd  <none>
pn  libteam-utils  <none>

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


-- no debconf information