network-manager gutsy no network devices

[Roberto Innocenti]

Binary package hint: network-manager

After upgrading from 7.04 to 7.10 powerpc, the network doen 't work.
I have make iface eth1 up and dhclient eth1 for make running network,
anyway even after that the mm-applet show no network devices...
network-monitor applet show the network

[sam tygier (samtygier)]

Same here. i get the following in syslog

Oct 27 18:48:35 titania NetworkManager: <WARN> new_nl_handle(): new_nl_handle: couldn't connecto to netlink: bind() failed (errno = Operation not permitted)
Oct 27 18:48:35 titania NetworkManager: <WARN> nm_signal_handler(): Caught signal 11. Generating backtrace...
Oct 27 18:48:35 titania NetworkManager: ******************* START **********************************
Oct 27 18:48:35 titania NetworkManager: <info> Will activate wired connection 'eth0' because it now has a link.
Oct 27 18:48:35 titania NetworkManager: (no debugging symbols found)
Oct 27 18:48:35 titania NetworkManager: Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
Oct 27 18:48:35 titania NetworkManager: (no debugging symbols found)
Oct 27 18:48:35 titania last message repeated 8 times
Oct 27 18:48:35 titania kernel: [ 2084.014972] eth1: New link status: Connected (0001)
Oct 27 18:48:35 titania kernel: [ 2084.016827] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth1: link becomes ready
Oct 27 18:48:35 titania NetworkManager: (no debugging symbols found)
Oct 27 18:48:35 titania last message repeated 3 times
Oct 27 18:48:35 titania NetworkManager: [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Oct 27 18:48:35 titania NetworkManager: [New Thread 805502976 (LWP 11221)]
Oct 27 18:48:35 titania NetworkManager: [New Thread 822281424 (LWP 11225)]
Oct 27 18:48:35 titania NetworkManager: [New Thread 813892816 (LWP 11222)]
Oct 27 18:48:35 titania NetworkManager: (no debugging symbols found)
Oct 27 18:48:35 titania last message repeated 4 times
Oct 27 18:48:35 titania NetworkManager: 0x0fbff994 in ?? () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
Oct 27 18:48:35 titania NetworkManager: ******************* END **********************************

[sam tygier (samtygier)]

this is with a powerbook G4 with an airport orinoco card in gutsy

[sam tygier (samtygier)]

i added network-manager-dbsym but it did not improve the trace

Oct 27 19:07:05 titania NetworkManager: <info> starting...
Oct 27 19:07:05 titania NetworkManager: <WARN> new_nl_handle(): new_nl_handle: couldn't connecto to netlink: bind() failed (errno = Operation not permitted)
Oct 27 19:07:05 titania NetworkManager: <info> eth1: Device is fully-supported using driver 'macio'.
Oct 27 19:07:05 titania NetworkManager: <info> nm_device_init(): waiting for device's worker thread to start
Oct 27 19:07:05 titania NetworkManager: <info> nm_device_init(): device's worker thread started, continuing.
Oct 27 19:07:05 titania NetworkManager: <info> Now managing wireless (802.11) device 'eth1'.
Oct 27 19:07:05 titania NetworkManager: <info> Deactivating device eth1.
Oct 27 19:07:05 titania avahi-daemon[10402]: Withdrawing address record for fe80::230:65ff:fe2c:74d7 on eth1.
Oct 27 19:07:05 titania kernel: [ 3193.972402] eth1: New link status: Disconnected (0002)
Oct 27 19:07:05 titania NetworkManager: <WARN> new_nl_handle(): new_nl_handle: couldn't connecto to netlink: bind() failed (errno = Operation not permitted)
Oct 27 19:07:05 titania NetworkManager: <info> eth0: Device is fully-supported using driver 'gem'.
Oct 27 19:07:05 titania NetworkManager: <info> nm_device_init(): waiting for device's worker thread to start
Oct 27 19:07:05 titania NetworkManager: <info> nm_device_init(): device's worker thread started, continuing.
Oct 27 19:07:05 titania NetworkManager: <info> Now managing wired Ethernet (802.3) device 'eth0'.
Oct 27 19:07:05 titania NetworkManager: <info> Deactivating device eth0.
Oct 27 19:07:05 titania avahi-daemon[10402]: Withdrawing address record for 192.168.1.146 on eth0.
Oct 27 19:07:05 titania avahi-daemon[10402]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv4 with address 192.168.1.146.
Oct 27 19:07:05 titania avahi-daemon[10402]: Interface eth0.IPv4 no longer relevant for mDNS.
Oct 27 19:07:05 titania NetworkManager: <WARN> new_nl_handle(): new_nl_handle: couldn't connecto to netlink: bind() failed (errno = Operation not permitted)
Oct 27 19:07:05 titania NetworkManager: <WARN> nm_signal_handler(): Caught signal 11. Generating backtrace...
Oct 27 19:07:05 titania NetworkManager: ******************* START **********************************
Oct 27 19:07:05 titania NetworkManager: <info> Will activate wired connection 'eth0' because it now has a link.
Oct 27 19:07:05 titania kernel: [ 3194.152985] eth1: New link status: Connected (0001)
Oct 27 19:07:05 titania kernel: [ 3194.154912] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth1: link becomes ready
Oct 27 19:07:05 titania NetworkManager: Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
Oct 27 19:07:05 titania NetworkManager: [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Oct 27 19:07:05 titania NetworkManager: [New Thread 805502976 (LWP 11455)]
Oct 27 19:07:05 titania NetworkManager: [New Thread 822281424 (LWP 11459)]
Oct 27 19:07:05 titania NetworkManager: [New Thread 813892816 (LWP 11456)]
Oct 27 19:07:05 titania NetworkManager: 0x0fbff994 in ?? () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
Oct 27 19:07:05 titania NetworkManager: ******************* END ****************...

[Roberto Innocenti (robyinno)]

The same problem even installing 7.10 Powerpc formatting root and boot partition and conserve the home partition that come from 7.04
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[Arek Korbik (arkadini)]

The code doesn't expect the new_nl_handle() to fail and tries to do wrong things with a null pointer. SIGSEGV occurs, code handles _that_ and retries the operation. Infinite loop ensues.

It seems the code is different on trunk, but the attached patch against the 0.6.5-0ubuntu16.7.10.0 package's source fixes the issue for me (PowerBook G4 15" 1.67GHz).

[Jim Bailey (jim-freesolutions)]

I am getting very similar messages on a iBook rev 2.2 PPC 700Mhz

[aquasync (aquasync)]

I was getting similar problems on an iBook, PPC 500Mhz.

Note that the upstream bug (gnome bug 491047) has since been closed with a fix. I backported the fix to the network-manager as shipped with gutsy (its just a couple of lines).

You can build a fixed package pretty easily, or I can upload the binary packages somewhere.

[sam tygier (samtygier)]

seems to be fixed for me in hardy (on powerBook3,5 original airport). please try the latest live cd. http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/daily-live/