network-manager gets uninstalled on apt full-upgrade

[Daniel van Vugt]

network-manager gets uninstalled on apt full-upgrade

I've tried two Noble systems this evening and both got their network-manager packages removed. So wifi is gone.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Doug Smythies (dsmythies)]

After the extensive upgrades of today no network. As per this bug report, network-manager seems to be gone. In my case this is a 24.04 Ubuntu Desktop QEMU/KVM VM running on my main Debian server host.

In my case the command was "sudo apt dist-upgrade"

[Roman (vient1)]

Guess it uninstalls network-manager to install new version but new version can't be installed because it depends on libnetplan1 which is missing from repos.

https://packages.ubuntu.com/noble/network-manager currently shows
[depends on] libnetplan1 (>= 0.106)
    Package not available

You can't simply install previous version 1.45.90-1ubuntu1, which still shows in `apt show network-manager`, because its dependency libnm0 of the same version is already missing from repos.

[Roman (vient1)]

Temporary bypass:
# wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/n/network-manager/network-manager_1.45.90-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
# dpkg --force-all -i network-manager_1.45.90-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb

dpkg output on my system:
Preparing to unpack network-manager_1.45.90-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking network-manager (1.45.90-1ubuntu1) over (1.45.90-1ubuntu1) ...
dpkg: network-manager: dependency problems, but configuring anyway as you requested:
 network-manager depends on libnm0 (= 1.45.90-1ubuntu1); however:
  Version of libnm0:amd64 on system is 1.45.90-1ubuntu3.
Setting up network-manager (1.45.90-1ubuntu1) ...
...

After that everything works fine.

Did the same with network-manager-openvpn and network-manager-openvpn-gnome to bring back VPN, also works.

Btw, after full-upgrade I have a ton (114) of "not gonna be installed" packages in apt output because some libs are missing from repos, seems something went wrong when uploading new packages.

[Danilo Egea Gondolfo (danilogondolfo)]

Please refer to https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2024-March/042954.html for more information about the current state of upgrades.

[Roman (vient1)]

Yeah, I guess making a full-upgrade instead of upgrade was a bad idea :)

[hiweedmandriva (fedoraelementaryos)]

After run below commands, network-manager is gone

    sudo apt -y update --fix-missing
    sudo apt -y full-upgrade
    sudo apt -y dist-upgrade
    sudo apt -y --purge autoremove
    sudo apt -y autoclean

To fix this, have to installed these deb files manually

    libndp0_1.8-1fakesync1_amd64.deb
    libnm0_1.45.90-1ubuntu3_amd64.deb
    libteamdctl0_1.31-1build2_amd64.deb
    network-manager_1.45.90-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb

[Fred (eldmannen+launchpad)]

To get my network connectivity restored I had to run:

    sudo dhcpcd

The repository have been fixed so I was able to install network-manager back again:

    sudo apt install network-manager

[Doug Smythies (dsmythies)]

The "sudo dhcpcd" command worked to get my network back. I had to do another update/upgrade cycle before network-manager would re-install.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Yes this bug no longer happens, confirmed on two machines. But there are other issues with many hundreds of packages being released so please log new bugs as you find them.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

AFAICS the new issue is that gnome-shell and gdm3 get uninstalled on apt full-upgrade. And so your system will never boot to a login screen.

I'd suggest waiting a few days for the archive to catch up. Also wait until there are new working images in https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/ where the ISOs are not still dated 2024-03-25 or earlier.