Package: network-manager
Version: 0.9.10.0-4
Severity: grave
Copypasted from a shell:
pietro@debiousci:~$ for i in `seq 1 10`; do nmcli c | wc; done
127 637 12827
127 637 12827
127 627 12827
126 628 12726
127 629 12573
127 634 12828
127 629 12827
127 630 12319
127 631 12827
127 627 12827
I am clearly not changing my list of available connections (so quick!). So what
is happening is that network-manager is dropping some of my registered
connections, in a random way. Initially I though "it is unable to handle more
than 127", but then I saw that sometimes it only lists 126. The output of
"nmcli c" is otherwise almost sane (see below).
Some connections show up more frequently, some less. Consider for instance:
pietro@debiousci:~$ for i in `seq 1 10`; do nmcli c | grep -i condividi; done |
sort
Condividi 8a006f93-95ac-4683-a683-56413cbb95bb
802-3-ethernet --
Condividi 8a006f93-95ac-4683-a683-56413cbb95bb
802-3-ethernet --
Condividi 8a006f93-95ac-4683-a683-56413cbb95bb
802-3-ethernet --
Condividi cab18fac-376f-42cf-9349-d9b4170dacce
802-3-ethernet --
condividi con dnsmasq d54c2a91-f654-4d52-bdbd-cf9d8efdd9e5
802-3-ethernet --
condividi daa501b5-87eb-4a3f-a6d5-4fa73d042a66
802-3-ethernet --
condividi daa501b5-87eb-4a3f-a6d5-4fa73d042a66
802-3-ethernet --
condividi daa501b5-87eb-4a3f-a6d5-4fa73d042a66
802-3-ethernet --
condividi daa501b5-87eb-4a3f-a6d5-4fa73d042a66
802-3-ethernet --
condividi daa501b5-87eb-4a3f-a6d5-4fa73d042a66
802-3-ethernet --
condividi daa501b5-87eb-4a3f-a6d5-4fa73d042a66
802-3-ethernet --
condividi daa501b5-87eb-4a3f-a6d5-4fa73d042a66
802-3-ethernet --
condividi daa501b5-87eb-4a3f-a6d5-4fa73d042a66
802-3-ethernet --
condividi daa501b5-87eb-4a3f-a6d5-4fa73d042a66
802-3-ethernet --
So
- one connection, "Condividi", is shown 3 times out of 10
- one connection, "condividi con dnsmasq", is shown 1 time only
- one connection, "condividi", is shown most of the times... with different
space paddings!!!!
Different runs of the above command will clearly give different results, but
some connections are indeed more rare - i.e. "condividi con dnsmasq" usually
shows in none of the 10 tries - and some exhibit (even more than 2) different
space paddings. The wireless connection I need to use at work shows up more or
less once every 100 tries. Which, by the way, is very annoying: it usually
disables autoconnect, makes it virtually impossible to use gnome-control-center
(or the GNOME 3 drop-down menu) to connect, and makes it very hard and time
consuming also with "nmcli c up" (nm-connection-editor is also affected).
This is why the bug is grave: in particular, if a remote server relies on
network-manager in order to connect at startup... you'd better hope it is not
too remote.
The bug was present also with 0.9.10.0-3. My rough guess is that the
problematic upgrade was located between July and September.
P.S: just for info: _most_ of the connections are dropped:
pietro@debiousci:~$ ls /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections | wc
431 891 8594
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.utf8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii adduser 3.113+nmu3
ii dbus 1.8.12-1
ii init-system-helpers 1.22
ii isc-dhcp-client 4.3.1-5
ii libc6 2.19-13
ii libdbus-1-3 1.8.12-1
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.102-1
ii libgcrypt20 1.6.2-4+b1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.42.1-1
ii libgnutls-deb0-28 3.3.8-5
ii libgudev-1.0-0 215-7
ii libmm-glib0 1.4.0-1
ii libndp0 1.4-2
ii libnewt0.52 0.52.17-1+b1
ii libnl-3-200 3.2.24-2
ii libnl-genl-3-200 3.2.24-2
ii libnl-route-3-200 3.2.24-2
ii libnm-glib4 0.9.10.0-3
ii libnm-util2 0.9.10.0-3
ii libpam-systemd 215-7
ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.105-8
ii libreadline6 6.3-8+b1
ii libsoup2.4-1 2.48.0-1
ii libsystemd0 215-7
ii libteamdctl0 1.12-1
ii libuuid1 2.25.2-3
ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian13+nmu1
ii policykit-1 0.105-8
ii udev 215-7
ii wpasupplicant 2.3-1
Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii crda 3.13-1
ii dnsmasq-base 2.72-2
ii iptables 1.4.21-2+b1
ii iputils-arping 3:20121221-5+b2
ii modemmanager 1.4.0-1
ii ppp 2.4.6-3
Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
ii avahi-autoipd 0.6.31-4+b1
pn libteam-utils <none>
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