Re: Annoying NetworkManager "feature"

[Gene Czarcinski <gene czarc net>]

On Wednesday 23 September 2009 01:40:11 Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 22:58 -0400, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
> > On Thursday 10 September 2009 16:59:29 Dan Williams wrote:
> > > > As far as setting "only use this connection for resources on its
> > > > network", I did have this work "at one time" but now seems to be
> > > > consistently failing to set ... I can edit the device connection,
> > > > check the box, and then save/apply this change.  However, when I
> > > > re-edit that device, the box is no longer checked?
> > >
> > > Hmm, you seem to be using an older version of NetworkManager... what
> > > specific version do you have?
> >
> > qemu-kvm Fedora 11 x86_64 guest with many updates applied. NM is:
> > NetworkManager.x86_64                1:0.7.1-8.git20090708.fc11   
> > installed
> 
> Huh, that should work.  Can you do a bit of debugging for me?
> 
> As root:
> 
> 1) service NetworkManager stop
> 2) killall -TERM nm-system-settings
> 3) /usr/sbin/nm-system-settings --debug --config
>  /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf 4) (in another terminal, as
>  root)  service NetworkManager start
> 
> then open up the connection editor, and check the box, and hit apply,
> and re-open it to see if that worked.  Do you get any messages from the
> terminal running nm-system-settings?  Do you get asked to authorize when
> checking the box?

I have reported this in bugzilla (originally against rawhide but now F11):
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523875

I did the above debugging and I was not prompted for root's password.  Here is 
the console output:
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[root f11-64 ~]# /usr/sbin/nm-system-settings --debug --config 
/etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf 
** Message: Loaded plugin ifcfg-rh: (c) 2007 - 2008 Red Hat, Inc.  To report 
bugs please use the NetworkManager mailing list.
** Message:    ifcfg-rh: parsing /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo ... 
** Message:    ifcfg-rh: parsing /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth3 ... 
** Message:    ifcfg-rh:     read connection 'System eth3'
** Message:    ifcfg-rh: Ignoring connection 'System eth3' and its device 
because NM_CONTROLLED was false.
** Message:    ifcfg-rh: parsing /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth2 ... 
** Message:    ifcfg-rh:     read connection 'System eth2'
** Message:    ifcfg-rh: parsing /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 ... 
** Message:    ifcfg-rh:     read connection 'System eth1'
** Message:    ifcfg-rh: updating /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth2
** Message:    ifcfg-rh: updating /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth2
** Message:    ifcfg-rh: updating /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth2
** Message:    ifcfg-rh: updating /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth2
** Message:    ifcfg-rh: updating /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth2
** Message:    ifcfg-rh: updating /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth2
** Message:    ifcfg-rh: updating /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth2
** Message:    ifcfg-rh: updating /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth2
^C** Message: Caught signal 2, shutting down...
[root f11-64 ~]# 
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I tried checking for eth2 twice (four messages each).

Gene