Re: networkmanager: update to 0.9.2.0 causes trouble

From: Koen Kooi <koen@dominion.thruhere.net>
To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: networkmanager: update to 0.9.2.0 causes trouble
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:51:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ja59ru$sno$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201111180227.55333.schnitzeltony@gmx.de>

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Op 18-11-11 02:27, Andreas Müller schreef:
> On Friday, November 18, 2011 12:21:47 AM Andreas Müller wrote:
>> On Friday, November 18, 2011 12:07:50 AM Koen Kooi wrote:
>>> Op 15-11-11 15:07, Andreas Müller schreef:
>>>> On Tuesday, November 15, 2011 12:23:45 PM Koen Kooi wrote:
>>>>> Op 14-11-11 22:07, Andreas Müller schreef:
>>>>>> On Monday, November 14, 2011 01:05:00 AM Andreas Müller wrote:
>>>>>>> since
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> commit 037cb32f99f229c9c55a029bec088ebc7f59d278 Author: Koen
>>>>>>> Kooi <koen@dominion.thruhere.net> Date:   Fri Nov 11 12:50:38
>>>>>>> 2011 +0100
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> networkmanager: update to 0.9.2.0
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> wlan connects successfully to my router but *fails* to
>>>>>>> connect external locations.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> networkmanager / nm-applet set up my network as eth0: IPv4
>>>>>>> fixed IP wlan0: WPA & WPA 2 Personal / IPv4 DHCP
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Attached you find the results for networkmanager 0.9.2 and 
>>>>>>> networkmanager 0.9.0 (reverted 
>>>>>>> 037cb32f99f229c9c55a029bec088ebc7f59d278)
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> My suggestion: * revert
>>>>>>> 037cb32f99f229c9c55a029bec088ebc7f59d278 until fixed * send a
>>>>>>> note to gnome bugzilla
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> FYI: with network-manager-applet the problem persists
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm seeing the same problem with default route not getting set,
>>>>> but rolling back to the older release won't solve much since
>>>>> binaries are already out there :/
>>>>> 
>>>>> regards,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Koen
>>>> 
>>>> So let's see it as another challenge :)
>>> 
>>> As a small update: I'm still working on it. Although I haven't fixed
>>> the route issue, I have found (and fixed!) other issues :)
>> 
>> I saw that - and I was full of hope but 10 minutes ago I tested your
>> last commit fixing version detecttion of dhclient.
>> 
>> It is not much but I tried with elder versions to bisect a bit when we
>> were kicked out.
>> 
>> 0.9.1.95: same - no default route 0.9.1.90: build gets totally confused
>> when libnl-1 and libnl-2 are found. So I build from scratch with
>> libnl-2 only but fall over a linker error...
>> 
> I checked the first commit working with libnl-2 (two commits after our
> working version 0.9.0) [1] together with libnl-2 and nm-applet 0.9.0: It
> does not create a default route.
> 
> Two possible reasons for not working: * commit [1] causes malfunction *
> libnl-2 causes our trouble for networkmanager 0.9.0 libnl-1 was used

Or both :)

If it's the libnl2 code, we're out of luck, NM will use the highest version
available. So either we add libnl3 to meta-oe with all the associated pains
or we patch out libnl2,3 detection out of configure.

Any volunteers for taking this up with upstream NM?

regards,

Koen

> 
> So long
> 
> Andreas
> 
> [1] 
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/?id=0fe8c80faef07777b9d6712abbdfbb9671b70899
>
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