Re: NetworkManager 0.5.2 crashes upon module loading, on FC4 with kernel 2.6.15 1.1833_FC4

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 11:26 +0100, Filip Miletic wrote:
> Greetings:
> 
> I used to have a setup in which NetworkManager 0.4 was used to manage a
> WPC11 v4 network card. The driver for the card was used via ndiswrapper.
> The ndiswrapper module loaded on demand, as the card was inserted into
> the pcmcia slot. All this was on FC4.
> 
> On a fresh FC4 install on the same computer, the module on-demand
> loading does not work for an unrelated reason. Therefore I put a
> 'modprobe ndiswrapper' into rc.local.
> 
> rc.local gets run at startup, but after all the other SysV scripts. Also
> after NM 0.5.2 gets loaded.
> 
> Problem is that, as soon as the network card is inserted, the NM daemon
> dies without any diagnostics. A consequence, I have to start it up
> manually each time I want to use the network card. I suppose this should
> not happen in any case so I report the issue here.
> 
> However I am unsure how to go about getting some more info (i.e NM does
> not report anything in the logs immediately before the crash), so I'd
> like a pointer in the right direction. At least an advice of how to make
> NM more verbose so I can see what's going on would be great.

As root, in a terminal:

gdb /usr/bin/NetworkManager
run --no-daemon
<do whatever makes it crash>
thread apply all backtrace

And mail the resulting output to the list.

Dan