Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> writes:

> On 07/01/2018 17:45, Melleus wrote:
>> Melleus <mell...@openmailbox.org> writes:
>> 
>>> Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> writes:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 06 Jan 2018 18:46:25 +0200, Melleus wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> What do the logs say?  
>>>>> That's all I could find in syslog:
>>>>>
>>>>> connmand[6709]: Aborting (signal 11) [/usr/sbin/connmand]
>>>>>
>>>>>> Can you start it manually?  
>>>>>
>>>>> No, it pretends to start but fails silently.
>>>>
>>>> Looking at the man page, try adding --debug=DEBUG and --nodaemon
>>>
>>> Thank you for helping me.
>>>
>>> --debug=DEBUG is almost silent, but just --debug is more verbose.
>>>
>>> All I see is that something wrong is happening here:
>>>
>>> connmand[2434]: src/iptables.c:__connman_iptables_append() -t mangle -A 
>>> connman-INPUT -j CONNMARK --restore-mark
>>> connmand[2434]: Aborting (signal 11) [connmand]
>> 
>> Thanks again for pointing me to logs. Those iptables was a
>> problem. There are the closed bug #573174. Iptables higher than 1.6
>> breaks connman. The solution is to use iptables lower than 1.6 or
>> connman higher than 1.32. So the combination of connman v1.29 and
>> iptables v1.6.1-r2 just cannot work. But unfortunately for me they both
>> have stable keyword. I beleive that this is a some kind of bug.
>> After I masked iptables higher than 1.6, reemerged the packages and
>> reboot, everything works like it should.
>> 
>> I don't know whether developers are reading this thread, but it would be
>> very nice to keyword only v1.4.21-r1 of iptables with stable keyword
>> (like they have done with kernel recently) or promote to stable some
>> version of connman higher than 1.32 upstream. This would completely
>> have this bug eliminated even before someone other than me hits it.
>
>
> Post your finding to b.g.o.
>
> It's a simple matter to limit which versions of iptables can be used
> with each version of connman. Tracking that, and making changes when
> they become known, is what being a package maintainer is all about.

connman-1.35-r1 arrives to stable. So no need to tinker with iptables
version anymore. The issue dissolved completely.


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