Re: cannot add profiles for wired connections or connect to wireless after upgrading to 0.9.8.6

[Pavel Simerda <psimerda redhat com>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mehmet Giritli" <mgiritli giritli eu>
> To: networkmanager-list gnome org
> Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2013 1:26:40 PM
> Subject: cannot add profiles for wired connections or connect to wireless     after upgrading to 0.9.8.6
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I use gentoo and this problem was reported by me to the gentoo bugzilla.
> But devs over there could not really figure out what the problem is,
> hence this email.

Please always provide a link when referring to external sources.

> Oct 12 12:56:24 mordor NetworkManager[13390]: Error parsing file
> '/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf': No such file or directory

This is non-fatal, afaik.

> Oct 12 12:56:24 mordor NetworkManager[13390]: Error parsing file
> '/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf': No such file or directory

Should be non-fatal as well (but should be reported as there's no need to read the file twice nor to report 
the error twice. I wonder whether that happens with git master.

> Oct 12 12:56:24 mordor NetworkManager[13390]:    keyfile:
> parsing .keep_net-misc_networkmanager-0 ...
> Oct 12 12:56:24 mordor NetworkManager[13390]: Connection failed to
> verify: (unknown)

Non-fatal, but NetworkManager shouldn't IMO read that file.

> Oct 12 12:56:24 mordor NetworkManager[13390]: Error parsing file
> '/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf': No such file or directory

Duplicate once again, non-fatal.

> Oct 12 12:56:24 mordor NetworkManager[13390]: <info> monitoring kernel
> firmware directory '/lib/firmware'.
> Oct 12 12:56:24 mordor NetworkManager[13390]: <info> WiFi hardware radio
> set enabled
> Oct 12 12:56:24 mordor dbus-daemon[371]: dbus[371]: [system]
> Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager'

Now NetworkManager is ready! It has no connections, though, according to the logs.

> Oct 12 12:56:24 mordor NetworkManager[13390]: <info> Added default wired
> connection 'Wired connection 1'

A desktopy behavior of adding a default auto wired configuration at runtime...

> state change: unmanaged -> unavailable (reason 'managed') [10 20 2]
> Oct 12 12:56:24 mordor NetworkManager[13390]: <info> (eth1): preparing
> device.
> Oct 12 12:56:24 mordor NetworkManager[13390]: <info> (eth1):
> deactivating device (reason 'managed') [2]

Looks OK.

> Oct 12 12:56:24 mordor NetworkManager[13390]: <info> Added default wired
> connection 'Wired connection 1'
> for /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:09.0/0000:05:00.0/net/eth1
> Oct 12 12:56:24 mordor NetworkManager[13390]: Unknown setting
> '802-3-ethernet'

Sounds like the auto-generated connection fails to provide correct settings. please file a bug report for 
that with http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ and don't forget to specify the version of NetworkManager there. Please 
link it with the Gentoo bug in both directions. The rest are just consequences of the problem noted here.

Cheers,

Pavel