Package: network-manager Version: 0.6.6-2 Severity: important
NetworkManager is used by several applications to determine whether there's currently a connection to the internet. As NM ignores any devices that are not auto/allow-hotplug + dhcp + _no_ addition option, even a minor customization (like adding an "up"-rule to enable Wake-on-LAN) will break these packages [1,2]. This is documented in [3], but since the applications just didn't work instead of complaining about NetworkManager saying there's no internet connection, I had no reason to read that file. Tracking down the issue took me about 12 hours since I suspected it in Sugar or Telepathy, not /etc/network/interfaces. So please mention this possible breakage in /etc/network/interfaces. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=511495 [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=511439 [3] /usr/share/doc/network-manager/README.Debian (on lenny) -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages network-manager depends on: ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups ii dbus 1.2.1-4 simple interprocess messaging syst ii dhcdbd 3.0-5 D-Bus interface to the ISC DHCP cl ii hal 0.5.11-8 Hardware Abstraction Layer ii ifupdown 0.6.8+nmu1 high level tools to configure netw ii iproute 20080725-2 networking and traffic control too ii libc6 2.7-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.1-4 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.76-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libgcrypt11 1.4.1-1 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.6-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgpg-error0 1.4-2 library for common error values an ii libhal1 0.5.11-8 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libiw29 29-1.1 Wireless tools - library ii libnl1 1.1-2 library for dealing with netlink s ii libnm-util0 0.6.6-2 network management framework (shar ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii wpasupplicant 0.6.4-3 Client support for WPA and WPA2 (I Versions of packages network-manager recommends: ii network-manager-gnome 0.6.6-3 network management framework (GNOM ii network-manager-kde 1:0.2.2-1 KDE systray applet for controlling network-manager suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
