Re: Network Manager patched on Ubuntu Karmic 9.10

[Ryan Novosielski <novosirj umdnj edu>]

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Ryan Novosielski wrote:
> Dan Williams wrote:
>> On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 16:17 -0500, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
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>>> Dan Williams wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 00:00 +0300, Louigi Verona wrote:
>>>>> Hey, Dan!
>>>>> Thanks for the advice. I am certainly keen on helping the community to
>>>>> solve the problem, but the bug had been reported to launchpad with
>>>>> like a dozen duplicates. The daily builds were suggested as partial
>>>>> fix but since then I could get no information from anywhere and bug
>>>>> reports on launchpad do not seem to be updated anymore. My friend was
>>>>> asking me whether he should install Karmic and I couldn't say "yes",
>>>>> since if his first GNU/Linux experience would be like that, I think
>>>>> this would not be a good thing. So eventually I decided to contact
>>>>> this mailing list directly, so that I can get some firsthand
>>>>> information.
>>>>>
>>>>> My dream would be to get a new version of NM. Uninstall this one,
>>>>> install this one and have it work normally like it did in 9.04 %) All
>>>>> apps get bugs like this one sometimes - I am not complaining. I just
>>>>> want to know if something is being done and if yes - when is a total
>>>>> fix planned? To me it is a serious blocker.
>>>> You can't realize that dream until we get some help in debugging the
>>>> issue so that we can fix the problem.  We also can't do anything until
>>>> users help us debug the problem by answering the questions that I've
>>>> asked.
>>>>
>>>> Dan
>>> I have another one for Karmic, and I can do that as well. I've noticed
>>> that there does not seem to be any way to get it to pay any attention to
>>> an Ad-Hoc network. When I'm in range, the network appears in the
>>> knetworkmanager applet, but if I click on it, nothing happens (much the
>>> same as a hidden network did in a case we'd discussed in the past). I'm
>>> not sure what the debug info would say, but it should be interesting to
>>> find out. It looks like absolutely nothing happens at all.
>> Can I get some /var/log/NetworkManager output from that?  Based on that
>> we can enable wpa_supplicant debugging and find out from there.
> 
> It's daemon.log for me. Looks like this is what happens:
> 
> Nov 18 08:56:19 novosirj-laptop NetworkManager: <WARN>
> wait_for_connection_expired(): Connection (2)
> /org/freedesktop/NetworkManagerSettings/2 failed to activate (timeout):
> (0) Connection was not provided by any settings service
> Nov 18 08:56:48 novosirj-laptop NetworkManager: <WARN>
> wait_for_connection_expired(): Connection (2)
> /org/freedesktop/NetworkManagerSettings/2 failed to activate (timeout):
> (0) Connection was not provided by any settings service
> Nov 18 08:56:51 novosirj-laptop wpa_supplicant[1256]:
> CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS
> Nov 18 08:56:51 novosirj-laptop wpa_supplicant[1256]: WPS-AP-AVAILABLE
> Nov 18 08:57:00 novosirj-laptop NetworkManager: <WARN>
> wait_for_connection_expired(): Connection (2)
> /org/freedesktop/NetworkManagerSettings/2 failed to activate (timeout):
> (0) Connection was not provided by any settings service
> Nov 18 08:57:08 novosirj-laptop NetworkManager: <WARN>
> wait_for_connection_expired(): Connection (2)
> /org/freedesktop/NetworkManagerSettings/2 failed to activate (timeout):
> (0) Connection was not provided by any settings service
> Nov 18 08:57:20 novosirj-laptop NetworkManager: <WARN>
> wait_for_connection_expired(): Connection (2)
> /org/freedesktop/NetworkManagerSettings/2 failed to activate (timeout):
> (0) Connection was not provided by any settings service
> 
> Each one of those activate timeouts is a result of me clicking the
> network and waiting 5-6 seconds. Didn't know to look in that log or I
> would have Google'd this one sooner (which I'll do now to see if it gets
> me anyplace).
> 

Additionally, if I restart knetworkmanager and try it, I notice the
following on startup:

Nov 18 09:07:53 novosirj-laptop NetworkManager: <WARN>
user_connection_get_settings_cb(): user_connection_get_settings_cb:
Invalid connection: 'NMSettingWireless' / 'mac-address' invalid: 1
Nov 18 09:07:53 novosirj-laptop NetworkManager: <WARN>
user_connection_get_settings_cb(): user_connection_get_settings_cb:
Invalid connection: 'NMSettingSerial' / '(null)' invalid: 3
Nov 18 09:07:53 novosirj-laptop NetworkManager: <WARN>
user_connection_get_settings_cb(): user_connection_get_settings_cb:
Invalid connection: 'NMSettingWireless' / 'mac-address' invalid: 1
Nov 18 09:07:53 novosirj-laptop NetworkManager: <WARN>
user_connection_get_settings_cb(): user_connection_get_settings_cb:
Invalid connection: 'NMSettingSerial' / '(null)' invalid: 3
Nov 18 09:08:21 novosirj-laptop NetworkManager: <WARN>
wait_for_connection_expired(): Connection (2)
/org/freedesktop/NetworkManagerSettings/2 failed to activate (timeout):
(0) Connection was not provided by any settings service

(the last line is another attempt at clicking the Ad-Hoc network)

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