Debian Bug report logs - #433159
network-admin: fails to display any information

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

From: Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org>

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

Subject: network-admin: fails to display any information

Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 00:55:45 +0100

Package: gnome-system-tools
Version: 2.18.1-1+b1
Severity: important

$ sudo network-admin

(network-admin:29688): Liboobs-WARNING **: There was an unknown error
communicating with the backends: Message did not receive a reply
(timeout by message bus)

(network-admin:29688): Liboobs-WARNING **: There was an unknown error
communicating with the backends: Message did not receive a reply
(timeout by message bus)

network-admin then shows a completely empty dialog. No interfaces, no
host settings, no location, no DNS, nothing.

The actual system has static eth0, DNS and is working fine.

Also tried on a powerpc laptop that has eth0 and eth2 (wireless) and
network-admin fails with the same error and a similar empty dialogue
box. (The laptop is similar config but does not have resolvconf
installed).


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-amd64 (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 gnome-system-tools depends on:
ii  gconf2                  2.18.0.1-3       GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libart-2.0-2            2.3.19-3         Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0             1.18.0-2         The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0            2.18.0-2         Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0          2.18.0-5         The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                   2.6-2            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2               1.4.10-1+b2      The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3             1.1.1-3          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libfontconfig1          2.4.2-1.2        generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6            2.3.5-1+b1       FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4             2.18.0.1-3       GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0             1:2.6.1-1        library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.12.12-1+b1     The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0       0.8.1-2          GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0             2.18.0-4         The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0       2.14.0-3         A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0            2.18.1-2         The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0          1:2.18.1-3       GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0             2.10.13-1        The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                 1:1.0.3-2        X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libiw29                 29~pre22-1       Wireless tools - library
ii  libnautilus-extension1  2.18.1-3+b1      libraries for nautilus components 
ii  liboobs-1-3             2.18.1-2+b1      GObject based interface to system-
ii  liborbit2               1:2.14.7-0.1     libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0           1.16.4-2         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0              1.2.15~beta5-2   PNG library - runtime
ii  libpopt0                1.10-3           lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                  2:1.0.3-1+b1     X11 Session Management library
ii  libx11-6                2:1.0.3-7        X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1             1:1.1.8-2        X cursor management library
ii  libxext6                1:1.0.3-2        X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxfixes3              1:4.0.3-2        X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii  libxi6                  2:1.1.1-1        X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1            1:1.0.2-1        X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxml2                 2.6.29.dfsg-1    GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2              2:1.2.1-1        X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1             1:0.9.2-1        X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  perl                    5.8.8-7          Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-5 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages gnome-system-tools recommends:
ii  gksu                          2.0.0-4    graphical frontend to su
ii  gnome-control-center          1:2.18.1-1 utilities to configure the GNOME d

-- no debconf information

Message #10 received at 433159@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>

To: Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org>, 433159@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#433159: network-admin: fails to display any information

Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:18:46 +0200

On Sun, Jul 15, 2007, Neil Williams wrote:
> (network-admin:29688): Liboobs-WARNING **: There was an unknown error
> communicating with the backends: Message did not receive a reply
> (timeout by message bus)
> 
> (network-admin:29688): Liboobs-WARNING **: There was an unknown error
> communicating with the backends: Message did not receive a reply
> (timeout by message bus)

 This is a known bug in libnet-dbus-perl; the workaround is to downgrade
 dbus to 1.0.x.  I'm not reassigning the bug to avoid receiving further
 reports.

-- 
Loïc Minier

Message #21 received at 433159-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Niv Sardi <xaiki@debian.org>

To: 433159-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#433159: fixed in libnet-dbus-perl 0.33.5-0.1

Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:17:11 +0000

Source: libnet-dbus-perl
Source-Version: 0.33.5-0.1

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

libnet-dbus-perl_0.33.5-0.1.diff.gz
  to pool/main/libn/libnet-dbus-perl/libnet-dbus-perl_0.33.5-0.1.diff.gz
libnet-dbus-perl_0.33.5-0.1.dsc
  to pool/main/libn/libnet-dbus-perl/libnet-dbus-perl_0.33.5-0.1.dsc
libnet-dbus-perl_0.33.5-0.1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/libn/libnet-dbus-perl/libnet-dbus-perl_0.33.5-0.1_i386.deb
libnet-dbus-perl_0.33.5.orig.tar.gz
  to pool/main/libn/libnet-dbus-perl/libnet-dbus-perl_0.33.5.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 433159@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Niv Sardi <xaiki@debian.org> (supplier of updated libnet-dbus-perl 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: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:43:57 +0200
Source: libnet-dbus-perl
Binary: libnet-dbus-perl
Architecture: source i386
Version: 0.33.5-0.1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Jack Bates <ms419@freezone.co.uk>
Changed-By: Niv Sardi <xaiki@debian.org>
Description: 
 libnet-dbus-perl - Perl extension for the DBus message system
Closes: 430202 430485 430657 430669 431826 433159
Changes: 
 libnet-dbus-perl (0.33.5-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream release
   * Non Maintainer Upload
 .
   * Bug fix: "Upgrading to dbus 1.1.1 breaks some gnome-system-tools.",
     thanks to Marc Pantel (Closes: #430202, #430485, #430657, #430669, #431826, #433159).
Files: 
 55dbedaf9246e3c174ea001730cdaff2 655 perl optional libnet-dbus-perl_0.33.5-0.1.dsc
 e84c2c5584407ac8bfda38d31480b57d 97468 perl optional libnet-dbus-perl_0.33.5.orig.tar.gz
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Message #36 received at 433159@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Nathan Myers <ncm@cantrip.org>

To: 433159@bugs.debian.org

Cc: xaiki@debian.org, lool@dooz.org

Subject: network-admin: fails to display any information

Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:21:03 -0800

Hi,

Shouldn't system-tools-backends depend on a version of
libnet-dbus-perl that works?  Also, shouldn't 
gnome-system-tools depend on system-tools-backends?

Nathan Myers
ncm@cantrip.org

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