Re: How do I fix broken NM gconf entries?

[Unit3 <unit3 demoni ca>]

Update:

Someone suggested I just recreate the directories for gconf
(.gconf/system/networking/wireless/networks). I tried this, and
discovered that this makes gconf happy, and it can now "find" my
readwrite source.

Further, NM seems to now be saving info into gconf again... but it's
still hanging in step 5. So, I guess the problem wasn't entirely gconf,
as NM is still getting hung up in the last stage of the connection.

Does anyone have any idea how I should debug this further? NM isn't
putting anything helpful in syslog after it starts "step 5".

Graeme


Unit3 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Somehow, my networkmanager setup has gotten seriously thrashed. The
> system/networking folder is entirely missing from ~/.gconf, and now
> network manager gets stuck. From syslog, it gets to this point, and step
> 5 never completes:
>
> Jul 15 13:42:06 RoH NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth1) Stage 4 of
> 5 (IP Configure Get) complete.
> Jul 15 13:42:06 RoH NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth1) Stage 5 of
> 5 (IP Configure Commit) started...
>
> I assume this is because it has no writeable gconf area to save the
> network configuration into. Because of this, nm-applet just sits in the
> notification area spinning forever. It incorrectly reports that the
> network isn't quite setup to any app that requests network status via
> dbus. Worse, once I've selected an AP, I can't select any other one,
> because NM is waiting for step 5 to complete before doing anything else.
>
> I'm not sure what I did to get it to this state, but does anyone have
> any ideas how to fix it? I can't seem to find any NM schema or gconf
> tree to import on my system, so I'm not sure where to get the missing
> gconf info to make NM happy.
>
> Thanks!
> Graeme
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