Debian Bug report logs - #742891
NetworkManager integration broken (user connections / unmanaged devices)

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Package: gnome-shell; Maintainer for gnome-shell is Debian GNOME Maintainers <[email protected]>; Source for gnome-shell is src:gnome-shell (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Michael Biebl <[email protected]>

Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 16:09:02 UTC

Severity: important

Found in version gnome-shell/3.8.4-5

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Bug#742891; Package gnome-shell. (Fri, 28 Mar 2014 16:09:07 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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From: Michael Biebl <[email protected]>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>
Subject: NetworkManager integration broken (user connections / unmanaged devices)
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 17:06:03 +0100
[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
Package: gnome-shell
Version: 3.8.4-5+b1
Severity: normal

If NetworkManager detects an unmanaged devices (i.e. one managed by
ifupdown), it monitors /run/network/ifstate and set's the state to
connected (global) if such a interface has been ifup'ed.

gnome-shell in wheezy had a patch, which instead of a disconnected icon,
should a connected icon. The patch was called 40-force-online.patch

It seems this patch was dropped in 3.8. It would be nice to re-integrate
the patch.

Even more important is getting the user connections support
forward-ported. This patch (for wheezy) ensured that unprivileged users
didn't have to enter a root password whenever you connected to a
wireless network. This patch, 28_network_user_connections.patch, was
dropped as well in 3.8

I'm certain that 40-force-online.patch is still necessary. I'm not
entirely sure about 28_network_user_connections.patch. Unless upstream
has fixed this in some other way, it needs to be forward ported as well.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-shell depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.18.0-1
ii  evolution-data-server                        3.8.5-3+b2
ii  gdm3                                         3.8.4-6
ii  gir1.2-accountsservice-1.0                   0.6.34-2
ii  gir1.2-caribou-1.0                           0.4.12-1
ii  gir1.2-clutter-1.0                           1.14.4-3
ii  gir1.2-freedesktop                           1.38.0-2
ii  gir1.2-gcr-3                                 3.12.0-1
ii  gir1.2-gkbd-3.0                              3.6.0-1
ii  gir1.2-glib-2.0                              1.38.0-2
ii  gir1.2-gmenu-3.0                             3.8.0-2
ii  gir1.2-gnomebluetooth-1.0                    3.8.1-2
ii  gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0                      3.8.4-2
ii  gir1.2-gtk-3.0                               3.10.7-1
ii  gir1.2-ibus-1.0                              1.5.5-1
ii  gir1.2-mutter-3.0                            3.8.4-3
ii  gir1.2-networkmanager-1.0                    0.9.8.8-4
ii  gir1.2-nmgtk-1.0                             0.9.8.8-2
ii  gir1.2-pango-1.0                             1.36.3-1
ii  gir1.2-polkit-1.0                            0.105-4
ii  gir1.2-soup-2.4                              2.44.2-1
ii  gir1.2-telepathyglib-0.12                    0.24.0-1
ii  gir1.2-telepathylogger-0.2                   0.8.0-3
ii  gir1.2-upowerglib-1.0                        0.9.23-2+b1
ii  gjs                                          1.36.1-2
ii  gnome-bluetooth                              3.8.1-2
ii  gnome-icon-theme-symbolic                    3.12.0-1
ii  gnome-settings-daemon                        3.8.5-2
ii  gnome-shell-common                           3.8.4-5
ii  gnome-themes-standard                        3.10.0-2
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                    3.8.2-2
ii  libatk-bridge2.0-0                           2.10.2-2
ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.10.0-2
ii  libc6                                        2.18-4
ii  libcairo-gobject2                            1.12.16-2
ii  libcairo2                                    1.12.16-2
ii  libcamel-1.2-43                              3.8.5-3+b2
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                           0.30-2
ii  libcanberra0                                 0.30-2
ii  libclutter-1.0-0                             1.14.4-3
ii  libcogl-pango12                              1.14.0-3
ii  libcogl12                                    1.14.0-3
ii  libcroco3                                    0.6.8-2
ii  libdbus-1-3                                  1.8.0-3
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2                             0.102-1
ii  libecal-1.2-15                               3.8.5-3+b2
ii  libedataserver-1.2-17                        3.8.5-3+b2
ii  libegl1-mesa [libegl1-x11]                   10.1.0-4
ii  libgck-1-0                                   3.12.0-1
ii  libgcr-base-3-1                              3.12.0-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.30.6-1
ii  libgirepository-1.0-1                        1.38.0-2
ii  libgjs0c [libgjs0-libmozjs185-1.0]           1.36.1-2
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.38.2-5
ii  libgnome-menu-3-0                            3.8.0-2
ii  libgstreamer1.0-0                            1.2.3-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.10.7-1
ii  libical1                                     1.0-1
ii  libjson-glib-1.0-0                           1.0.0-1
ii  libmozjs185-1.0                              1.8.5-1.0.0+dfsg-4+b1
ii  libmutter0b                                  3.8.4-2
ii  libnm-glib4                                  0.9.8.8-4
ii  libnm-gtk0                                   0.9.8.8-2
ii  libnm-util2                                  0.9.8.8-4
ii  libnspr4                                     2:4.10.4-1
ii  libnspr4-0d                                  2:4.10.4-1
ii  libnss3                                      2:3.16-1
ii  libnss3-1d                                   2:3.16-1
ii  libp11-kit0                                  0.20.2-4
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.36.3-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                          1.36.3-1
ii  libpolkit-agent-1-0                          0.105-4
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0                        0.105-4
ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0                      4.0-6+b1
ii  libpulse0                                    4.0-6+b1
ii  libsecret-1-0                                0.18-1
ii  libsoup2.4-1                                 2.44.2-1
ii  libsqlite3-0                                 3.8.4.1-1
ii  libstartup-notification0                     0.12-3
ii  libtelepathy-glib0                           0.24.0-1
ii  libx11-6                                     2:1.6.2-1
ii  libxcomposite1                               1:0.4.4-1
ii  libxdamage1                                  1:1.1.4-1
ii  libxext6                                     2:1.3.2-1
ii  libxfixes3                                   1:5.0.1-1
ii  libxi6                                       2:1.7.2-1
ii  libxml2                                      2.9.1+dfsg1-3
ii  libxrandr2                                   2:1.4.2-1
ii  python                                       2.7.5-5
ii  telepathy-mission-control-5                  1:5.16.1-1

Versions of packages gnome-shell recommends:
ii  gkbd-capplet          3.6.0-1
ii  gnome-contacts        3.8.3-1+b1
ii  gnome-control-center  1:3.8.3-4
ii  gnome-user-guide      3.8.2-1
ii  unzip                 6.0-11

gnome-shell suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information
[28_network_user_connections.patch (text/x-diff, attachment)]
[40-force-online.patch (text/x-diff, attachment)]

Information forwarded to [email protected], Debian GNOME Maintainers <[email protected]>:
Bug#742891; Package gnome-shell. (Fri, 28 Mar 2014 17:03:05 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Michael Biebl <[email protected]>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Debian GNOME Maintainers <[email protected]>. (Fri, 28 Mar 2014 17:03:05 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #10 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Biebl <[email protected]>
To: Michael Biebl <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: Re: Bug#742891: NetworkManager integration broken (user connections / unmanaged devices)
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 18:00:45 +0100
[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
Am 28.03.2014 17:06, schrieb Michael Biebl:

> Even more important is getting the user connections support
> forward-ported. This patch (for wheezy) ensured that unprivileged users
> didn't have to enter a root password whenever you connected to a
> wireless network. This patch, 28_network_user_connections.patch, was
> dropped as well in 3.8
> 
> I'm certain that 40-force-online.patch is still necessary. I'm not
> entirely sure about 28_network_user_connections.patch. Unless upstream
> has fixed this in some other way, it needs to be forward ported as well.

I just verified that 28_network_user_connections.patch is still
necessary. Without this patch, I need admin privileges to create a new
(wireless) connection, unless I'm an administrator (i.e. in group sudo).

So we should definitely forward-port this to 3.8 (or 3.12)

-- 
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universe are pointed away from Earth?

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Severity set to 'important' from 'normal' Request was from Michael Biebl <[email protected]> to [email protected]. (Mon, 12 May 2014 01:09:07 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Information forwarded to [email protected], Debian GNOME Maintainers <[email protected]>:
Bug#742891; Package gnome-shell. (Mon, 17 Sep 2018 07:45:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to [email protected]:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Debian GNOME Maintainers <[email protected]>. (Mon, 17 Sep 2018 07:45:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #17 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Michael Biebl
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 13:11:24 +0530
Removing ifupdown fixed this issue. I think "ifupdown" is still
provided in debian default installs due to some historial reasons, but
I maybe wrong!


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