Re: Cannot start NetworkManager

[Alexander Sack <asac ubuntu com>]

On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 08:48:50PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 18:41 -0600, fREW Schmidt wrote:
> > Hello all!
> > 
> > I am trying to set up my wireless to work with NetworkManager but I
> > cannot even get the background daemon to start up.  I am not really
> > sure what's causing the issue.  Here is the error message that I got
> > trying to start the daemon manually:
> > 
> > localhost [8161] <1> % sudo NetworkManager --no-daemon      
> > NetworkManager: <info>  starting...
> > NetworkManager: <info>  Found radio
> > killswitch /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/ipw_wlan_switch
> > NetworkManager: <info>  eth0: driver is '8139too'.
> > NetworkManager: <info>  Found new Ethernet device 'eth0'.
> > NetworkManager: <info>  (eth0): exported
> > as /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_11_d8_c9_0b_89
> > NetworkManager: <info>  eth1: driver is 'ipw2200'.
> > NetworkManager: <info>  eth1: driver supports SSID scans (scan_capa
> > 0x21).
> > NetworkManager: <info>  Found new 802.11 WiFi device 'eth1'.
> > NetworkManager: <info>  (eth1): exported
> > as /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_12_f0_21_e6_85
> > NetworkManager: symbol lookup error: NetworkManager: undefined symbol:
> > nm_connection_new_from_hash
> 
> Do you have the files /usr/lib/libnm-util.so.0
> or /usr/lib64/libnm-util.so.0?  It looks like libnm-util either wasn't
> installed correctly, or is old.  Is the modification date on either of
> those files (if you have them) significantly different than what's
> on /usr/sbin/NetworkManager?

Also check that you dont have old cruft in /usr/local/lib/
... (e.g. maybe you tried to build NM on your own once).

 - Alexander