update to 0.6.5-0ubuntu15 caused regular timeouts, drastically reduced speed when it worked and usually it failed

[Steven Brown]

Binary package hint: network-manager

This happened on both my desktop (wireless rt2500 pci) and my laptop (hostap_cs driver). My desktop is a feisty system updated to current Gutsy, and my Laptop is an install from Tribe 5 with updates. Initially, both worked fine with network-manager, and all was swell. But after one update, of which, I'm *assuming* network-manager was a part of (can't recall), both systems' connectivity pretty much broke. Ther version of network-manager that is culprit on my systems is 0.6.5-0ubuntu15.

On my desktop, I was able to connect for random amounts of time, from 1 second to an hour, then it would just quietly stop working. If I manually brought the interface down and then up, it would usually work again for an undetermined amount of time. My laptop was similar, but was much more difficult to get a connection with. I've attached the output of some commands from my desktop to this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-applet/+bug/150180

I tried many things, and restarted both computers many times before giving up. This is how I gave up:

$ sudo aptitude remove network-manager network-manager-gnome
$ sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

Since then, my network has been working fine again. :P

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

please test the 0.6.5-0ubuntu16~ppa3 package from my ppa:
    http://ppa.launchpad.net/asac/ubuntu/pool/main/n/network-manager/

Thanks,

 - Alexander

[Steven Brown (steven-w-j-brown)]

I've tried the version from you ppa on both my laptop and my desktop, and it seems fine, except for my desktop disconnecting. I think this is a different issue related to the rt2500 ... sigh.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

network-manager (0.6.5-0ubuntu17) hardy; urgency=low

  * upload 0.6.5-0ubuntu17 to hardy

network-manager (0.6.5-0ubuntu16.7.10.0) gutsy-proposed; urgency=low

  Release changes from test package previously known as 0.6.5-0ubuntu16~ppa3:
  * drop gracefull supplicant shutdown feature and its followup patches,
    because they cause crashes and a real fix would need more intrusive code
    rewrites: (LP: #145683, LP: #83623, LP: #152098, LP: #151405)
    - debian/patches/41n_graceful_supplicant_shutdown.patch,
      debian/patches/41q_retry_supplicant_cleanup_startup_if_ctrl_interface_connect_failes.patch,
      debian/patches/41v_lp141233-fix-supplicant-cleanup-crashes.patch,
      debian/patches/41w_lp145683_cancel_scan_in_supplicant_cleanup.patch: drop
        patches that belong to the "graveful supplicant feature".
    - debian/patches/41u_custom_timeout_for_some_wpa_ctrl_operations.patch: update
      interleaving patch
    - debian/patches/series: update quilt series accordingly.
  * debian/patches/24pp_svn2604_Add-HAL-based-rfkill-support.patch: use
    gint32 instead of guint32 for getting the killswitch power argument
    (LP: #138794).

 -- Alexander Sack <email address hidden> Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:14:43 +0100