Selecting a wireless network via the nm-applet system tray icon pops up a message "Failed to add/activate connection; (4) Message did not receive a reply (timeout by the message bus)" and causes the NetworkManager daemon to crash. After the message appears, nm-applet displays a message "NetworkManager is not running" when left clicking on it thereafter. I haven't testing with a wired network, as I have no connection to plug into. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start network manager 2. Start nm-applet 3. Select any wireless network from the nm-applet menu Actual Results: I'm not connected to the wireless network A message window pops up saying "Failed to add/activate connection; (4) Message did not receive a reply (timeout by the message bus)" nm-applet no longer responds to left clicks, instead displaying only "NetworkManager is not running" The NetworkManager daemon process is no longer running Expected Results: I should have been connected to the wireless network I chose My emerge --info output ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Portage 2.2.14_rc1 (python 2.7.8-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0, gcc-4.8.3, glibc-2.19-r1, 3.16.3-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.16.3-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5-3210M_CPU_@_2.50GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 8069132 total, 2857476 free KiB Swap: 8912892 total, 8912892 free Timestamp of tree: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 11:30:01 +0000 ld GNU ld 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I have been following [Bug 501852] and [Bug 523700]. I tried the patch available in [Bug 523700], but made no change to the behaviour of my problem. Also, I attached a the output of my NetworkManager process running in debug mode to [Bug 501852], which I reattach here
Created attachment 386714 [details] Debug log of NetworkManager-0.9.10.0 running and crashing when nm-applet connects to bring up a wifi network
Please try with net-misc/networkmanager-0.9.10.0-r1 (please note you will need to reconfigure your network profiles... please read carefully the messages that will be shown after building it)
Tested, and it works. I got no helpful messages after compilation, and I double-checked the build log. All I saw was * One or more symlinks to directories have been preserved in order to * ensure that files installed via these symlinks remain accessible. This * indicates that the mentioned symlink(s) may be obsolete remnants of an * old install, and it may be appropriate to replace a given symlink with * the directory that it points to. * * /var/run * * Updating desktop mime database ... * Updating shared mime info database ... That said, the only config I had to change was to remove ifnet from plugins= in /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf
(In reply to James Dominy from comment #4) > Tested, and it works. I got no helpful messages after compilation, and I > double-checked the build log. All I saw was > > * One or more symlinks to directories have been preserved in order to > * ensure that files installed via these symlinks remain accessible. This > * indicates that the mentioned symlink(s) may be obsolete remnants of an > * old install, and it may be appropriate to replace a given symlink with > * the directory that it points to. > * > * /var/run > * > * Updating desktop mime database ... > * Updating shared mime info database ... > > That said, the only config I had to change was to remove ifnet from plugins= > in /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf I have just checked the warning when updating from 0.9.10.0 to 0.9.10.0-r1 and it works (with USE -systemd) >>> Installing (1 of 1) net-misc/networkmanager-0.9.10.0-r1::gentoo * One or more symlinks to directories have been preserved in order to * ensure that files installed via these symlinks remain accessible. This * indicates that the mentioned symlink(s) may be obsolete remnants of an * old install, and it may be appropriate to replace a given symlink with * the directory that it points to. * * /var/run * * Updating desktop mime database ... * Updating shared mime info database ... * Updating desktop mime database ... * Updating shared mime info database ... * Ifnet plugin is now disabled because of it being unattended * and unmaintained for a long time, leading to some unfixed bugs * and new problems appearing. We will now use upstream 'keyfile' * plugin. * Because of this, you will likely need to reconfigure some of * your networks. To do this you can rely on Gnome control center, * nm-connection-editor or nmtui tools for example. >>> Auto-cleaning packages... >>> No outdated packages were found on your system. * GNU info directory index is up-to-date. * IMPORTANT: 2 config files in '/etc' need updating. * See the CONFIGURATION FILES section of the emerge * man page to learn how to update config files. (they are "ewarn" messages, not "elog"... but default config should store ewarn messages to in /var/log/portage/elog/summary.log as it does for me)
Well, the concrete "ifnet" warnings should come from: if [[ -e "${EROOT}etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf" ]]; then if grep -q plugins "${EROOT}etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf" | grep -q ifnet; then ewarn ewarn "You seem to use 'ifnet' plugin in ${EROOT}etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf" ewarn "Since it won't be used when running under Systemd, you will need to stop setting" ewarn "ifnet plugin there to allow NetworkManager to work." ewarn fi fi
