Re: Network Manager patched on Ubuntu Karmic 9.10

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 08:59 -0500, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
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> 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:
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> 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).

So this log indicates that the applet isn't creating the connection
correctly and providing it to NetworkManager after you click the
network.  Is this actually knetworkmanager, or is this the KDE4 widget?
knetworkmanager itself (the old standalone applet) is no longer
developed and only works with NM 0.7.x actually.

Dan