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

[Jirka Klimes <jklimes redhat com>]

On Saturday 12 of October 2013 22:40:25 Mehmet Giritli wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use gentoo and this problem as reported by me to the gentoo bugzilla.
> But devs over there could not really figure out what the problem is,
> hence this email.
>
> Recently I upgraded from 0.9.8.4 to 0.9.8.6 and as a result I can not
> use nm at all. The problem is that I can not add a profile (clicking Add
> in the add profile window has no effect) or even connect to a wireless
> network. I can see my devices and wifi aps but turning them on or
> selecting aps has no effect.
>
> I tried removing the /etc/NetworkManager dir entirely but it had no
> effect.

Please check that your installation is not mangled.
Do you still have these problems with 0.9.8.8 ?

> Oct 12 12:56:24 mordor NetworkManager[13390]: Error parsing file
> '/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf': No such file or directory
Copy the configuration file /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf back so 
that NM can read it.

There is a NM crash. Can you run NM inside gdb to get a backtrace
$ sudo gdb /usr/bin/NetworkManager
(gdb) run --no-daemon
...
after the crash
(gdb) bt full

Jirka