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lloeki

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From: France

Registered: 2007-02-20

Posts: 456

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recent networkmanager issues

lately, I have some issues with networkmanager, namely it fails to stay connected more than a split second.

by hand, everything 100% works (wpa, dhcp, even automated it with ifplugd+a lil' wpad script of my own)

with nm:
- everything works
- wpa_sup negotiation completes, mac association completes, gnome-nm gives a connected+signalstrength icon
- but then, it jumps out. no ip ever gotten, gnome-nm gives a disconnected icon
- some diagnostic, in /var/log/messages.log:

Aug 21 18:59:17 xps dhcdbd: dhco_input_option: Value -1 cannot be converted to type L
Aug 21 18:59:17 xps dhcdbd: dhco_parse_option_settings: bad option setting: old_dhcp_lease_time = -1

so that's really dhcp not working, and nm bailing out

so, as it used to work before, I looked at /var/cache/pacman/pkg to take a peek at what was updated. here's what I have here:

wpa_supplicant-0.5.7-3.pkg.tar.gz 
wpa_supplicant-0.5.8-1.pkg.tar.gz
dhcdbd-2.8-1.pkg.tar.gz
dhclient-3.0.6-1.pkg.tar.gz
networkmanager-0.6.5-2.pkg.tar.gz
networkmanager-0.6.5-3.pkg.tar.gz

so the culprit is either wpa_sup (unlikely since it works standalone) or networkmanager. I would have expected maybe dhcdbd, but it didn't move. what's more, nm requires the latest wpa_sup, so that's definitely nm the culprit. and indeed going back to 0.6.5-2 makes it work again...

I will further test if it's not a stroke of luck, but so far it doesn't seem so.

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lloeki

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From: France

Registered: 2007-02-20

Posts: 456

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Re: recent networkmanager issues

it did it again... it seems rather erratic, happening from time to time.

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mutlu_inek

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From: all over the place

Registered: 2006-11-18

Posts: 684

Re: recent networkmanager issues

I had not updated my system for about two and a half months since I was overseas for a while. When I did the update yesterday, (K)NetworkManager stopped working for me, too. I downgraded a number of packages and now it works well again. I downgraded to the following versions:

dbus-glib-0.73-1
dhcdbd-2.7-2
dhclient-3.0.5-2
dhcpcd-3.0.17-1
hal-0.5.9-3
hal-info-0.20070516-1
knetworkmanager-0.1-4
networkmanager-0.6.5-1

Due to a lack of time I have not yet singled out the offending package(s). Also, dbus-glib, dhcpcd and  hal-info should not affect the issue at all. I may check on this later.

Hope this helps anyone.