Re: Weird behavior of NetworkManager 0.8.2

[Jirka Klimes <jklimes redhat com>]

On Tuesday 14 of December 2010 19:50:56 Robert Gabriel wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:02, Jirka Klimes <jklimes redhat com> wrote:
> > On Friday 26 of November 2010 12:40:57 Robert Gabriel wrote:
> >> I've build and installed NetworkManager 0.8.2 on my Slack 13.1, but I
> >> can in syslog this weird error:
> >> 
> >> Nov 26 12:29:18 kongoni NetworkManager[823]:    keyfile:     error: File
> >> did not exist or was not a regular file
> >> Nov 26 12:29:18 kongoni NetworkManager[823]:    keyfile: updating
> >> /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/Auto eth0.84URMV
> >> Nov 26 12:29:18 kongoni NetworkManager[823]:    keyfile:     error: File
> >> did not exist or was not a regular file
> >> Nov 26 12:29:18 kongoni NetworkManager[823]:    keyfile: updating
> >> /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/Auto eth0
> >> Nov 26 12:34:18 kongoni NetworkManager[823]:    keyfile: updating
> >> /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/Auto eth0.IDXRMV
> >> Nov 26 12:34:18 kongoni NetworkManager[823]:    keyfile:     error: File
> >> did not exist or was not a regular file
> >> Nov 26 12:34:18 kongoni NetworkManager[823]:    keyfile: updating
> >> /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/Auto eth0.IDXRMV
> >> Nov 26 12:34:18 kongoni NetworkManager[823]:    keyfile:     error: File
> >> did not exist or was not a regular file
> >> Nov 26 12:34:18 kongoni NetworkManager[823]:    keyfile: updating
> >> /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/Auto eth0
> > 
> > It should be fixed by this commit
> > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/?id=0376
> > f6b1ceda64e279e64bfb37ab67f0c36478b6
> 
> The patch doesnt work:
> 
> Dec 14 19:13:22 kongoni NetworkManager[631]: <info> trying to start
> the modem manager...
> Dec 14 19:13:22 kongoni NetworkManager[631]: <info> monitoring kernel
> firmware directory '/lib/firmware'.
> Dec 14 19:13:22 kongoni NetworkManager[631]: <error>
> [1292350402.339832] [main.c:684] main(): failed to initialize the
> network manager: Could not load plugin 'keyfile':
> /usr/lib/NetworkManager/libnm-settings-plugin-keyfile.so: undefined
> symbol: utils_should_ignore_file
> Dec 14 19:13:22 kongoni NetworkManager[631]: <info> exiting (error)
> 
The patch adds utils_should_ignore_file() function that is defined in new files 
utils.h and utils.c added to Makefile.am

You didn't probably regenerate Makefile and thus the function didn't compile.
Re-run ./autogen.sh script to generate new Makefile.

Jirka