Debian Bug report logs - #571331
[network-manager] stale state file disables networking (after suspend)

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

From: Rutger ter Borg <rutger@terborg.net>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: [network-manager] stale state file disables networking (after suspend)

Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:44:35 +0100

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.8-1
Severity: normal

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Hello, I see there are numerous bugs covering suspend, but this one seems to 
be more generic. Apparently (due to battery loss) the state file in 
/var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state contained the text

NetworkingEnabled=false

which caused the network to remain in a disabled state. This didn't change 
over reboot, and also isn't changeable from recent docked GUI-tools such as 
KDE's control module for network-manager (which just showed "networking 
disabled").

To remedy the problem, I just deleted the stale state file and rebooted.

Kind regards,

Rutger


--- System information. ---
Architecture: amd64
Kernel:       Linux 2.6.32-2-amd64

Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  500 unstable        www.debian-multimedia.org 
  500 unstable        ftp.nl.debian.org 
  500 stable          deb.opera.com 

--- Package information. ---
Depends                       (Version) | Installed
=======================================-+-==============
libc6                          (>= 2.4) | 2.10.2-6
libdbus-1-3                  (>= 1.0.2) | 1.2.20-2
libdbus-glib-1-2              (>= 0.78) | 0.84-1
libgcrypt11                  (>= 1.4.2) | 1.4.5-2
libglib2.0-0                (>= 2.18.0) | 2.22.4-1
libgnutls26               (>= 2.7.14-0) | 2.8.5-2
libgudev-1.0-0                 (>= 146) | 151-2
libnl1                         (>= 1.1) | 1.1-5
libnm-glib2                (>= 0.7.999) | 0.8-1
libnm-util1                (>= 0.7.999) | 0.8-1
libpolkit-gobject-1-0         (>= 0.94) | 0.96-1
libuuid1                      (>= 2.16) | 2.16.2-0
lsb-base                    (>= 3.2-14) | 3.2-23
wpasupplicant              (>= 0.6.2-1) | 0.6.10-1
dbus                         (>= 1.1.2) | 1.2.20-2
udev                                    | 151-2
ifupdown                                | 0.6.9
adduser                                 | 3.112
dhcp3-client                            | 3.1.3-2


Recommends                 (Version) | Installed
====================================-+-===========
network-manager-gnome                | 
 OR network-manager-kde              | 1:0.9~svn1088283-1
policykit-1                          | 0.96-1
ppp                                  | 2.4.4rel-10.1
dnsmasq-base                         | 2.52-1
iptables                             | 1.4.6-2
modemmanager                         | 0.3-1


Suggests           (Version) | Installed
============================-+-===========
avahi-autoipd                | 

Message #10 received at 571331@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Andres Cimmarusti <acimmarusti@gmail.com>

To: 571331@bugs.debian.org

Subject: I had the same problem

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 17:49:57 -0500

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Hi,

I have the same problem. After failing to hibernate/suspend (because of
driver issues), wireless is completely shut off and won't come on (even
after rebooting).
Your fix worked for me....thanks a lot!

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Message #15 received at 571331@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Darshaka Pathirana <dpat@syn-net.org>

To: 571331@bugs.debian.org

Subject: [network-manager] stale state file disables networking (after suspend)

Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:19:42 +0200

Hi!

Just stumbled over this... (hard to find this bug, when networking is
disabled btw.. ;))

After updating my Squeeze system my grub-config got messed up. (I have
a Dual-Boot system Debian/Squeeze and Ubuntu 10.04 - but the
Ubuntu-Kernel was reassigned to Debian; anyone knows if there is bug
for this - could not find one so far.)

Anyway: forgot to fix my grub.cfg before I suspended to disk. I started
up my notebook booted wrong kernel and the system stalled somewhere...
After rebooting the right kernel my network was not working anymore.
Reboot did not help.

Found this. Deleted "/var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state" and
did a:

$ service network-manager restart

All good again. (So reboot after deleting is not necessary.)

But: The bug still persists. If the system can not get up from suspend
for any reason network-manager failes to bring up the network because
of the stalled state-file....

Regards,
 - Darsha

Message #20 received at 571331-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>

To: Darshaka Pathirana <dpat@syn-net.org>, 571331-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#571331: [network-manager] stale state file disables networking (after suspend)

Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:31:00 +0200

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Version: 0.8.1-1
On 13.08.2010 11:19, Darshaka Pathirana wrote:

> 
> But: The bug still persists. If the system can not get up from suspend
> for any reason network-manager failes to bring up the network because
> of the stalled state-file....

This has been fixed in 0.8.1:

Michael


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