Package: network-manager
Version: 0.6.4-6
Severity: important
When Network Manager is installed on a system with statically configured
network interfaces it usually reports the system as being disconnected
from the network, either like this:
NetworkManager Tool
State: disconnected
print_devices(): didn't get a reply from NetworkManager.
There are no available network devices.
if there are no other interfaces or by reporting an idle interface as
the only interface. This causes serious problems for other tools
attempting to use Network Manager's link state reporting to perform
actions - the information coming out of Network Manager can only be
trusted if Network Manager is in use and the system has a supported
configuration.
I guess the ideal solution would be for Network Manager to have a full
and complete understanding of all the possible network configuration
methods and accurately reflect this status to other applications.
That's probably wishful thinking, though. Simpler a solution, like
having the init script disable the daemon when an unsupported
configuration is found in /etc/network/interfaces would probably avoid
the problems other software encounters.
Severity important due to the integration issues (these are proving
particularly painful for NIS).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-powerpc
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii adduser 3.102 Add and remove users and groups
ii dbus 1.0.2-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii dhcdbd 2.0-3 D-Bus interface to the ISC DHCP cl
ii hal 0.5.8.1-6.1 Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii ifupdown 0.6.8 high level tools to configure netw
ii iproute 20061002-4 Professional tools to control the
ii iputils-arping 3:20020927-6 Tool to send ICMP echo requests to
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libdbus-1-3 1.0.2-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.71-3 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libgcrypt11 1.2.3-2 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii libglib2.0-0 2.12.6-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgpg-error0 1.4-2 library for common error values an
ii libhal1 0.5.8.1-6.1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii libiw28 28-1 Wireless tools - library
ii libnl1-pre6 1.0~pre6-4 Library for dealing with netlink s
ii libnm-util0 0.6.4-6 network management framework (shar
ii lsb-base 3.1-23.1 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii wpasupplicant 0.5.5-4 Client support for WPA and WPA2 (I
network-manager recommends no packages.
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