Debian Bug report logs - #432322
network-manager: package upgrade kills network connections every time

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jon Dowland <jon@alcopop.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: network-manager: package upgrade kills network connections every time

Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 13:40:31 +0100

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.6.4-8+b1
Severity: important

I have network-manager installed on a (currently) headless
box. That might seem like madness, but I just did a default
desktop install and later repurposed the machine as a sid
server.

The last two times that the network-manager package has
been upgraded, the process of doing so has killed my active
network connections, including the ssh session with the
controlling tty for the aptitude upgrade process:

    Preparing to replace libdaemon0 0.10-1 (using .../libdaemon0_0.11-0.2_i386.deb) ...
    Unpacking replacement libdaemon0 ...  Preparing to replace dbus-x11 1.1.1-1 (using .../dbus-x11_1.1.1-3_i386.deb) ...
    Unpacking replacement dbus-x11 ...
    Preparing to replace dbus 1.1.1-1 (using .../archives/dbus_1.1.1-3_i386.deb) ...
    Stopping network connection manager:
    NetworkManagerDisconnecting: Timeout, server not responding.

Please try and avoid this happening.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                     3.103        Add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                        1.1.1-3      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  dhcdbd                      2.8-1        D-Bus interface to the ISC DHCP cl
ii  hal                         0.5.9.1-2    Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  ifupdown                    0.6.8        high level tools to configure netw
ii  iproute                     20070313-1   Professional tools to control the 
ii  iputils-arping              3:20070202-1 Tool to send ICMP echo requests to
ii  libc6                       2.5-11       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                 1.1.1-3      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2            0.74-1       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11                 1.2.4-2      LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.12.12-1    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgpg-error0               1.4-2        library for common error values an
ii  libhal1                     0.5.9.1-2    Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libiw29                     29~pre22-1   Wireless tools - library
ii  libnl1-pre6                 1.0~pre6-5   Library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-util0                 0.6.4-8+b1   network management framework (shar
ii  lsb-base                    3.1-23.1     Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  wpasupplicant               0.6.0-2      Client support for WPA and WPA2 (I

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  network-manager-gnome         0.6.4-8+b1 network management framework (GNOM

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Message #12 received at 432322@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Matthijs Melchior <mmelchior@xs4all.nl>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <432322@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: network-manager: stops remote gnome session

Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 13:27:57 +0200

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.6.5-1
Followup-For: Bug #432322


When upgrading 'netweork-manager', the IP address of the connection used
to do the upgrade is removed. This makes the upgrade process stop, with
no way to continue using the normal connection through eth0.

Logging in on the system console, which is normally not in use due to
the low quality of the screen, I was able to let the upgrade continue by
giving the follwoing commands:
   ifdown eth0; ifup eth0

Please integrate this in the 'network-manager' upgrade script to enable
upgrading when the gnome session doing the upgrade is on a remote X server.

Thanks,
	Matthijs melchior.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                     3.105        add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                        1.1.1-3      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  dhcdbd                      3.0-1        D-Bus interface to the ISC DHCP cl
ii  hal                         0.5.9.1-4    Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  ifupdown                    0.6.8        high level tools to configure netw
ii  iproute                     20070313-1   Professional tools to control the 
ii  iputils-arping              3:20070202-2 Tool to send ICMP echo requests to
ii  libc6                       2.6.1-1+b1   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                 1.1.1-3      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2            0.74-1       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11                 1.2.4-2      LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.14.0-2     The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgpg-error0               1.4-2        library for common error values an
ii  libhal1                     0.5.9.1-4    Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libiw29                     29~pre22-1   Wireless tools - library
ii  libnl1-pre6                 1.0~pre6-5   Library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-util0                 0.6.5-1      network management framework (shar
ii  lsb-base                    3.1-24       Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  wpasupplicant               0.6.0-3      Client support for WPA and WPA2 (I

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  network-manager-gnome         0.6.5-1    network management framework (GNOM

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Message #17 received at 432322@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org>

To: 432322@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#432322: network-manager: package upgrade kills network connections every time

Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:01:15 +0100

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On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 01:40:31PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote:
> The last two times that the network-manager package has
> been upgraded, the process of doing so has killed my active
> network connections, including the ssh session with the
> controlling tty for the aptitude upgrade process:

That's so freakingly annoying.  Couldn't you simple restart the daemon
through invoke-rc.d in postinst instead of stopping it in preinst
and bringing it back up in postinst?  What's the reason for this
madness?

Kind regards,
Philipp Kern
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Message #22 received at 432322@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: maximilian attems <max@stro.at>

To: 432322@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: network-manager: package upgrade kills network connections every time

Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:38:55 +0100

how broken is that!?
taking your network down for upgrade!
you wont believe but *all* desktop boxes on our lab are remotely
administred and no i don't want to run to each of one.

beside that it could result in deadlock if your dirs are shared
over network.

set severity to serious as this breaks on any default debian
desktop install when upgrading from etch to lenny.

-- 
maks

Message #31 received at 432322@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org>

To: 432322@bugs.debian.org

Cc: control@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#432322: network-manager: package upgrade kills network connections every time

Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:16:43 +0100

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severity 432322 serious
thanks

On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 12:01:15PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 01:40:31PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote:
> > The last two times that the network-manager package has
> > been upgraded, the process of doing so has killed my active
> > network connections, including the ssh session with the
> > controlling tty for the aptitude upgrade process:
> That's so freakingly annoying.  Couldn't you simple restart the daemon
> through invoke-rc.d in postinst instead of stopping it in preinst
> and bringing it back up in postinst?  What's the reason for this
> madness?

The Release Managers consider this bug to be RC for Lenny.  Would it be
possible to reload NetworkManager in a way not causing the network
connection to break, i.e. without the devices being deconfigured?

If all the files are replaceable while NetworkManager is still running
`dh_installinit --no-start --no-restart-on-upgrade' together with
invoke-rc.d in postinst (as n-m has an init script now, not just an
event script) would be a start as it would reduce the downtime, but
it will still deconfigure the interfaces shortly and take some time
to reaquire the IP (on LAN) and on WiFi more time to reassociate to
the AP, possibly needing user intervention.

And is #433087 (network-manager: Behaves poorly when dbus daemon is
restarted) really the same issue?  Dear maintainers, please provide
some input on this issue.

Kind regards,
Philipp Kern
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Message #38 received at 432322@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>

To: Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org>, 432322@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#432322: network-manager: package upgrade kills network connections every time

Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:48:59 +0100

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Philipp Kern wrote:
> severity 432322 serious
> thanks
> 
> On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 12:01:15PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 01:40:31PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote:
>>> The last two times that the network-manager package has
>>> been upgraded, the process of doing so has killed my active
>>> network connections, including the ssh session with the
>>> controlling tty for the aptitude upgrade process:
>> That's so freakingly annoying.  Couldn't you simple restart the daemon
>> through invoke-rc.d in postinst instead of stopping it in preinst
>> and bringing it back up in postinst?  What's the reason for this
>> madness?
> 
> The Release Managers consider this bug to be RC for Lenny.  Would it be
> possible to reload NetworkManager in a way not causing the network
> connection to break, i.e. without the devices being deconfigured?

No, that's not possible. Ethernet maybe, wireless no way.

> If all the files are replaceable while NetworkManager is still running
> `dh_installinit --no-start --no-restart-on-upgrade' together with
> invoke-rc.d in postinst (as n-m has an init script now, not just an
> event script) would be a start as it would reduce the downtime, but
> it will still deconfigure the interfaces shortly and take some time
> to reaquire the IP (on LAN) and on WiFi more time to reassociate to
> the AP, possibly needing user intervention.
> 
> And is #433087 (network-manager: Behaves poorly when dbus daemon is
> restarted) really the same issue?  Dear maintainers, please provide
> some input on this issue.

There has been said a lot already, so I won't repeat everything.

I'll probably use the --no-restart-on-upgrade dh_installinit option + 
notify the user via update-notifier to reboot it's machine.

Not something I'm really fond of, but hey.

Cheers,
Michael

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Message #43 received at 432322@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Soeren Sonnenburg <bugreports@nn7.de>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <432322@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: or...

Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 08:40:07 +0100

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.6.5-5
Followup-For: Bug #432322

is there no way to fix networkmanager to *NOT* take the interface down
when it is stopped? 

otherwise the simple fix is to tell people to reboot their machine *OR*
restart dbus (which should not be done if there are open connections...)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (700, 'stable'), (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-sonne (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, 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              3.105               add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                 1.1.2-1             simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  dhcdbd               3.0-2               D-Bus interface to the ISC DHCP cl
ii  hal                  0.5.10-5            Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  ifupdown             0.6.8               high level tools to configure netw
ii  iproute              20080108-1          Professional tools to control the 
ii  iputils-arping       3:20071127-1        Tool to send ICMP echo requests to
ii  libc6                2.7-6               GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.1.2-1             simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2     0.74-1              simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11          1.4.0-3             LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.14.5-2            The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgpg-error0        1.4-2               library for common error values an
ii  libhal1              0.5.10-5            Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libiw29              29-1                Wireless tools - library
ii  libnl1               1.1-1               Library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-util0          0.6.5-5             network management framework (shar
ii  lsb-base             3.1-24              Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  wpasupplicant        0.6.1~git20071119-1 Client support for WPA and WPA2 (I

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  network-manager-gnome         0.6.5-3    network management framework (GNOM

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Message #50 received at 432322@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>

To: Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org>, 432322@bugs.debian.org

Cc: control@bugs.debian.org, 432322-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#432322: network-manager: package upgrade kills network connections every time

Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:05:40 +0100

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unmerge 432322
thanks

Philipp Kern wrote:
> severity 432322 serious
> thanks
> 
> On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 12:01:15PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 01:40:31PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote:
>>> The last two times that the network-manager package has
>>> been upgraded, the process of doing so has killed my active
>>> network connections, including the ssh session with the
>>> controlling tty for the aptitude upgrade process:
>> That's so freakingly annoying.  Couldn't you simple restart the daemon
>> through invoke-rc.d in postinst instead of stopping it in preinst
>> and bringing it back up in postinst?  What's the reason for this
>> madness?
> 
> The Release Managers consider this bug to be RC for Lenny.  Would it be
> possible to reload NetworkManager in a way not causing the network
> connection to break, i.e. without the devices being deconfigured?

Hi Philipp et al,

my first idea to address this issue, was to modify/patch NM to not
deconfigure the device when NM is stopped and make it possible for NM to
pick up the existing connection when NM is started again (that's also
the reason why I merged 432322 and 433087, as it would have solved both
issues).

I talked about this with upstream, and he said for connections like
ppp/vpn/wireless it would be almost impossible, for ethernet connections
maybe but also only with considerable effort.

> If all the files are replaceable while NetworkManager is still running
> `dh_installinit --no-start --no-restart-on-upgrade' together with
> invoke-rc.d in postinst (as n-m has an init script now, not just an
> event script) would be a start as it would reduce the downtime, but
> it will still deconfigure the interfaces shortly and take some time
> to reaquire the IP (on LAN) and on WiFi more time to reassociate to
> the AP, possibly needing user intervention.

I will take this approach for now: restart NM in postinst (instead of
stop in prerm, start in postinst). I'll do the same for dbus.
This should minimise the downtime and in case the upgrade process get's
interrupted in between keep the machine accessible via the network.
It's not a perfect solution but I hope RMs will consider it appropriate.

> And is #433087 (network-manager: Behaves poorly when dbus daemon is
> restarted) really the same issue?  Dear maintainers, please provide
> some input on this issue.

As said, I first wanted to address this differently. For now I unmerged
the bugs again and will handle them separately.

Cheers,
Michael

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Message #60 received at 432322-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>

To: 432322-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#432322: fixed in network-manager 0.6.6-1

Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:02:42 +0000

Source: network-manager
Source-Version: 0.6.6-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
network-manager, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

libnm-glib-dev_0.6.6-1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/n/network-manager/libnm-glib-dev_0.6.6-1_i386.deb
libnm-glib0_0.6.6-1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/n/network-manager/libnm-glib0_0.6.6-1_i386.deb
libnm-util-dev_0.6.6-1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/n/network-manager/libnm-util-dev_0.6.6-1_i386.deb
libnm-util0_0.6.6-1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/n/network-manager/libnm-util0_0.6.6-1_i386.deb
network-manager-dev_0.6.6-1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/n/network-manager/network-manager-dev_0.6.6-1_i386.deb
network-manager_0.6.6-1.diff.gz
  to pool/main/n/network-manager/network-manager_0.6.6-1.diff.gz
network-manager_0.6.6-1.dsc
  to pool/main/n/network-manager/network-manager_0.6.6-1.dsc
network-manager_0.6.6-1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/n/network-manager/network-manager_0.6.6-1_i386.deb
network-manager_0.6.6.orig.tar.gz
  to pool/main/n/network-manager/network-manager_0.6.6.orig.tar.gz



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 432322@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> (supplier of updated network-manager package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)


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Format: 1.7
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:37:16 +0200
Source: network-manager
Binary: network-manager network-manager-dev libnm-glib0 libnm-glib-dev libnm-util0 libnm-util-dev
Architecture: source i386
Version: 0.6.6-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Utopia Maintenance Team <pkg-utopia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>
Description: 
 libnm-glib-dev - network management framework (GLib interface)
 libnm-glib0 - network management framework (GLib shared library)
 libnm-util-dev - network management framework (development files)
 libnm-util0 - network management framework (shared library)
 network-manager - network management framework daemon
 network-manager-dev - network management framework (development files)
Closes: 432322 465158 469195 470197 471317
Changes: 
 network-manager (0.6.6-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream release. (Closes: #470197)
     - Ensure dbus errors are properly initialised. (Closes: #471317)
   * Removed patches
     - debian/patches/04-if_fix.patch (obsolete)
     - debian/patches/11-man_page_sh_name.patch (merged upstream)
     - debian/patches/12_readme_format.patch (merged upstream)
     - debian/patches/20-stable_branch_updates_r2652.patch (applied upstream)
     - debian/patches/21-endianess_fix_r2754.patch (applied upstream)
     - debian/patches/22-fix_vpn_ftbfs_dont_disable_gnome_deprecated.patch
       (merged upstream)
     - debian/patches/23-rfkill_return_type.patch (fixed upstream)
     - debian/patches/24-get_mode_fix_r3122.patch (applied upstream)
     - debian/patches/25-libnl_unique_pid_r3155.patch (applied upstream)
     - debian/patches/26-libnl_1.0-pre8_r3206.patch (applied upstream)
     - debian/patches/27-dont_repeat_errors.patch (applied upstream)
   * debian/patches/07-domain_search.patch
     - Add support for DHCP domain-search option. (Closes: #465158)
       Thanks to Bas Zoetekouw for the patch.
   * debian/patches/08-hal_deprecated_keys.patch
     - Add support for the "net.originating_device" key, which has replaced
       the deprecated "net.physical_device" key in newer HAL versions.
   * debian/patches/06-dispatch_more_events.patch
     - NetworkManagerDispatcher.1.in has been renamed to
       NetworkManagerDispatcher.8.in. Update the patch accordingly.
   * debian/network-manager.manpages
     - The NetworkManager and NetworkManagerDispatcher man pages have been
       moved to section 8.
   * debian/control
     - The pkg-config files have been fixed upstream and unnecessary
       dependencies were removed. Update Depends: for libnm-glib-dev and
       libnm-util-dev accordingly. (Closes: #469195)
   * debian/rules, debian/network-manager.postinst
     - Minimize downtime during upgrades. (Closes: #432322)
       Restart the service in postinst instead of stop in prerm and start in
       postinst.
Files: 
 9747b88742c426e82c22ccda522fc4e1 1279 net optional network-manager_0.6.6-1.dsc
 412ed4db5d2db04285799c4303ddeeed 984114 net optional network-manager_0.6.6.orig.tar.gz
 f88fe7c38b17173938a0ac02c529a9ab 22821 net optional network-manager_0.6.6-1.diff.gz
 1873a6bd6df78c34f711afd1df081b58 368946 net optional network-manager_0.6.6-1_i386.deb
 710fa70db0a91c67f5aa6c640d517c75 123918 devel optional network-manager-dev_0.6.6-1_i386.deb
 606090dcafbd95875d83efb37815d2f1 129298 libs optional libnm-glib0_0.6.6-1_i386.deb
 ac2bae3d6bf4e44dbb6279c4f1cba6ba 129124 libdevel optional libnm-glib-dev_0.6.6-1_i386.deb
 099a81045d7241c382580e1d938c8d0f 135576 libs optional libnm-util0_0.6.6-1_i386.deb
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