network-manager defaults to "ifupdown (usb0)" connection (regression in karmic)

[Rolf Leggewie]

Binary package hint: network-manager

After the latest karmic updates (this started to happen about two or three days ago), Network Manager will not connect to my cable LAN by default, but use a new connection "Ifupdown (usb0)" by default. I have to manually switch to "Wired connection 1" to access the Internet and the LAN.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

found this in /var/log/syslog after restart

Sep 19 00:14:56 X24 NetworkManager: <WARN> user_list_connections_cb(): Couldn't retrieve connections: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken..

[l2m (l2m)]

i have such messages in syslog ... AND the nm-applet is not working .. :(
not possible to open the applet menu, clicking on it does not make anything, le menu is not appearing

restarting networkmanager does not solve the problem

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

l2m, thank you for your comment. The messages in syslog seem to suggest you may be affected by this bug as well. But what do you mean "clicking on it does not make anything"? A left-click on the network-manager icon does not pop up a menu for you? That would indicate that you are seeing another issue on top of this one. I get a menu just fine, both for left and right click.

[l2m (l2m)]

yes , you're true .. it could be two differents bugs.. but both appeared at same time, after last update i've done, just before my post here

and, yes .. a left click on the network-manager icon does not pop up a menu, nothing happend

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

l2m wrote:
> and, yes .. a left click on the network-manager icon does not pop up a
> menu, nothing happend
>

I think you'd be doing well to report a separate ticket for this to make
sure it gets onto the radar. JFTR, left-click works fine here.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

please run apport-collect 432777

to attach valuable info.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

(if you still see this at all)

[Vincent Tijms (tijmz)]

I have this on a (up-to-date) Jaunty install, although instead of usb0, ifupdown is present at eth0. The connection cannot be deleted via the Gnome Network Manager GUI.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Architecture: i386
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
IpRoute:
 192.168.0.0/24 dev eth3 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.3 metric 1
 default via 192.168.0.1 dev eth3 proto static
IwConfig: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Package: network-manager 0.8~a~git.20091013t193206.679d548-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LC_MESSAGES=C
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.47-generic
RfKill: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout fax floppy fuse lpadmin plugdev sambashare scanner src video
WifiSyslog:

WpaSupplicantLog:

XsessionErrors:
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2575): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (xfce4-weather-plugin:2917): weather-WARNING **: Unable to open image: /usr/share/xfce4/weather/icons/liquid/-.png
 (xfce4-weather-plugin:2917): weather-WARNING **: Unable to open image: /usr/share/xfce4/weather/icons/liquid/-.png
 (xfce4-weather-plugin:2917): weather-WARNING **: Unable to open image: /usr/share/xfce4/weather/icons/liquid/-.png

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Alexander, thank you for your comment.

Yes, this is still unchanged. The bug should contain the necessary information now.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

checkout /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf ... there is plugins=ifupdown,keyfile ... please flip the order and restart everything.

does that change how your system connections are prioritized?

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

or is "Wired Connection 1" not a system-connection? (aka "available to all users")

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

I fixed this for me by going once more through /etc/network/interfaces and uncommenting everything but the lo interface, setting [ifupdown] to "managed=true" and restarting Network Manager. I've kind of lost sight of whether or not the default install will work OOTB or not. In the former case, this ticket should probably be set to invalid state.

Vincent and l2m, how about you? Does the above fix the issue for you as well?

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

setting [ifupdown] to "managed=true"

-> in /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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