Re: Bug

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Marco Franke wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have worked with the network manager for 2 months. I have wrote a small programm in Ruby which communicate over DBus with the network manager. I used the signals.
> Unfortunately, the networkmanager didn't like my programm and usually  it has stopped to update the gui and  has taken no DBuS commands after a few minutes.
> 
> I made a test: I had a Wlan connection. Then i put a network cable into my notebook and the network manager changed to this connection. All right. Perfect. I put  in and put  out the cable ervery 20 s and after  2-5 minutes the network manager stopped to working. 
> I had the same reaction in 5 of 7 tests.
> 
> I used the network manager 0.6.5 and Ubuntu 7.10.  My questions are:
> 
> 1. Know somebody about this problem ?
> 2. There is a fix?
> 3.How can i used it without trouble?

Sounds like a bug; could you attach to the NetworkManager process with GDB and 
get a backtrace from NM when it fails to respond to further D-Bus commands?  
Also, logs from NetworkManager (either run it manually with --no-daemon or grab 
from your standard syslog location) would be helpful too.

Dan