kNetwork Manager not working after upgrade

[Paul Weiss]

I just upgraded to Kubuntu Hardy Heron from Kubuntu Gutsy Gibbon. Everything went fine and then I rebooted. After I rebooted I noticed that my network manager did not load. So I then checked to see if my madwifi drivers were behaving badly, but everything looked good. Next I tried to launch the kNetwork Manager from the menu and nothing happened. Any ideas?

[Paul Weiss (interweiss)]

If I run knetworkmanager in terminal I get this error:

knetworkmanager: error while loading shared libraries: libnetworkstatus.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[arno_b (arno.b)]

Please do not forget to add the concerned package when you fill a report.

[Paul Weiss (interweiss)]

OK, adding networkstatus (http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/kde/networkstatus) worked, but as soon as I rebooted I had the same problem again. I had to reinstall networkstatus to get my internet back. Now, when I try to do an update it gives me a list of about 16 files to update, networkstatus is one of them. It actually only updates network status. When I try to update again it lists all of those files, but it does not upgrade them although it tells me the upgrade is complete and the notification is still there in the system tray. When I reboot I lose my internet connection again and when I reinstall networkstatus the same vicious cycle begins again.

[Paul Weiss (interweiss)]

I just tried the Alpha 1 Kubuntu ISO in a live session and the knetwork manager doesn't work through it either.

[Paul Weiss (interweiss)]

As of the December 3, 2007 the problem seems to be fixed if you download the daily build.