Re: Wireless silently disconnects?

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 22:08 -0500, Robert Love wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 21:49 -0500, Brian Magnuson wrote:
> 
> > Confirmed.  The 2nd hunk doesn't appear to be needed.  Just the first diff
> > wrapping the set_mode in an if() is needed.
> 
> Excellent!
> 
> Thanks for the good work.
> 
> > P.S. While I was trying out various things I got one of these.  After this I
> > couldn't get NM to start managing any interface.   I tried restarting the dbus
> > daemon but I eventually just gave up and did a full reboot.  Seems to be fine
> > now.  *shrug*
> > 
> > (nm-applet:1770): WARNING **: <WARNING>
> > nma_dbus_net_properties_cb (): dbus returned an error.
> > (org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.LimitsExceeded) The maximum number of pending
> > replies per connection has been reached
> 
> Someone else reported this in our Bugzilla.
> 
> Do you see a lot of wireless networks?
> 
> Dan, any ideas?  The default pending replies is 32.  Pretty high.

I've seen this too, I'm not at all sure why it's a problem.  The applet
does fire off quite a few requests:

1) Requests device list
2) When device list is received, requests properties for _each_ device
3) If device is a wireless device, requests properties for _each_
network
4) Does other requests, like getting NM's state, whether wireless &
networking is enabled/disabled, etc

I'm not sure if that all adds up to 32, but some of the requests are not
sent until others have been received (ie, network requests aren't sent
until you get the device properties for the device, which isn't sent
until you get the device list, etc).

We've seen this around as well, but it seems to be fairly random.

Dan