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[Bug 1489154] Re: NetworkManager does not start / fails to start

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From: Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <mathieu.tl@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2015 18:00:18 -0000
Reply-to: Bug 1489154 <1489154@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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This isn't a bug -- we're blocking packages in wily-proposed
specifically because they can be slightly broken, and the tests that
failed and currently block promotion of the package are meant to do just
that -- block things that may be a little buggy. From there, partial
upgrades make things even worse, since you may be missing important part
of underlying libraries.

IN this case, a partial upgrade of NM is obviously slightly wrong. I
don't know how you got to that state, but my guess is that you have the
proposed repository enabled, something that is explicitly strongly
discouraged on wily unless you really know what you're doing. I believe
dino99 exposes it quite well -- partial upgrades would break things, and
the packages have remained in proposed for that reason (regardless of
block-proposed, which wouldn't stop you in getting out of your way to
upgrade the packages manually).

I've just done an upgrade using wily-proposed here, of network-manager,
and it more or less works appropriately when all the packages are
installed.

For reference, the way to upgrade NetworkManager is the following:

sudo apt-get install -t wily-proposed network-manager libnm0 libnm-glib4
libnm-util2 gir1.2-networkmanager-1.0

network-manager-gnome (nm-applet) and the libnm-gtk* libraries *do not*
always need to follow, they should (and appear to) still work just fine.

In the same vein, to downgrade back to network-manager versions that are
in wily-release, first check the version available via 'apt-cache policy
network-manager' from wily/main:

network-manager:
  Installed: 1.0.4-0ubuntu3
  Candidate: 1.0.4-0ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 1.0.4-0ubuntu3 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.0.4-0ubuntu2 0
         99 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily-proposed/main amd64 Packages
     0.9.10.0-4ubuntu23 0
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily/main amd64 Packages

(from my own system right now) the value for wily/main is
0.9.10.0-4ubuntu23.

sudo apt-get install network-manager=0.9.10.0-4ubuntu23
libnm0=0.9.10.0-4ubuntu23 libnm-glib4=0.9.10.0-4ubuntu23 libnm-
util2=0.9.10.0-4ubuntu23 gir1.2-networkmanager-1.0=0.9.10.0-4ubuntu23

Here to downgrade back, I also needed to add 'network-manager-dbg-
libnm0-' to the above line, because for this particular upgrade, NM 1.0
adds a new libnm0 package, and I also had network-manager-dbg installed.
This will force them to be removed.

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Title:
  NetworkManager does not start / fails to start

Status in One Hundred Papercuts:
  Invalid
Status in network-manager package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Yesterday i did the upgrade to version 1.0.4 of NetworkManger.

  Today my Xubuntu 15.10 cannot connect to the net, and wants to upload a crash report.
  This also fails cause the start of the NetworkManger fails after booting.

  Trying manually to start with

  ~$ sudo systemctl start NetworkManager

  leads that the icon comes up, disappears, comes up, disappears for 3,
  4 times and then it's gone forever.

  ~$ journalctl -xe
  Aug 26 22:02:34 Wily NetworkManager[1578]: <info>  monitoring ifupdown state file '/run/network/ifstate'.
  Aug 26 22:02:34 Wily NetworkManager[1578]: <info>  Loaded device plugin: NMVxlanFactory (internal)
  Aug 26 22:02:34 Wily NetworkManager[1578]: <info>  Loaded device plugin: NMVlanFactory (internal)
  Aug 26 22:02:34 Wily NetworkManager[1578]: <info>  Loaded device plugin: NMVethFactory (internal)
  Aug 26 22:02:34 Wily NetworkManager[1578]: <info>  Loaded device plugin: NMTunFactory (internal)
  Aug 26 22:02:34 Wily NetworkManager[1578]: <info>  Loaded device plugin: NMMacvlanFactory (internal)
  Aug 26 22:02:34 Wily NetworkManager[1578]: <info>  Loaded device plugin: NMInfinibandFactory (internal)
  Aug 26 22:02:34 Wily NetworkManager[1578]: <info>  Loaded device plugin: NMGreFactory (internal)
  Aug 26 22:02:34 Wily NetworkManager[1578]: <info>  Loaded device plugin: NMEthernetFactory (internal)
  Aug 26 22:02:34 Wily NetworkManager[1578]: <info>  Loaded device plugin: NMBridgeFactory (internal)
  Aug 26 22:02:34 Wily NetworkManager[1578]: <info>  Loaded device plugin: NMBondFactory (internal)
  Aug 26 22:02:34 Wily NetworkManager[1578]: <info>  Loaded device plugin: NMAtmManager (/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/NetworkManager/libnm-device-plugin-adsl.so)
  Aug 26 22:02:34 Wily NetworkManager[1578]: <info>  Loaded device plugin: NMWifiFactory (/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/NetworkManager/libnm-device-plugin-wifi.so)
  Aug 26 22:02:34 Wily NetworkManager[1578]: <info>  Loaded device plugin: NMBluezManager (/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/NetworkManager/libnm-device-plugin-bluetooth.so)
  Aug 26 22:02:34 Wily NetworkManager[1578]: <info>  Loaded device plugin: NMWwanFactory (/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/NetworkManager/libnm-device-plugin-wwan.so)
  Aug 26 22:02:34 Wily NetworkManager[1578]: <info>  WiFi enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file
  Aug 26 22:02:34 Wily NetworkManager[1578]: <info>  WWAN enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file
  Aug 26 22:02:34 Wily NetworkManager[1578]: <info>  WiMAX enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file
  Aug 26 22:02:34 Wily NetworkManager[1578]: <info>  Networking is enabled by state file
  Aug 26 22:02:34 Wily NetworkManager[1578]: nm_device_get_device_type: assertion 'NM_IS_DEVICE (self)' failed
  Aug 26 22:02:34 Wily NetworkManager[1578]: <info>  (lo): link connected
  Aug 26 22:02:34 Wily NetworkManager[1578]: <info>  (lo): new Generic device (carrier: ON, driver: 'unknown', ifindex: 1)
  Aug 26 22:02:34 Wily NetworkManager[1578]: <info>  (enp0s3): link connected
  Aug 26 22:02:34 Wily NetworkManager[1578]: <info>  (enp0s3): new Ethernet device (carrier: ON, driver: 'e1000', ifindex: 2)
  Aug 26 22:02:34 Wily NetworkManager[1578]: <info>  (enp0s3): device state change: unmanaged -> unavailable (reason 'managed') [10 20 2]
  Aug 26 22:02:34 Wily NetworkManager[1578]: <info>  keyfile: add connection in-memory (4251ae7f-22a1-4de8-8f11-7a62fd420d65,"Kabelnetzwerkverbindung 1")
  Aug 26 22:02:34 Wily NetworkManager[1578]: <info>  (enp0s3): created default wired connection 'Kabelnetzwerkverbindung 1'
  Aug 26 22:02:34 Wily NetworkManager[1578]: <info>  urfkill disappeared from the bus
  Aug 26 22:02:34 Wily NetworkManager[1578]: <info>  wpa_supplicant running
  Aug 26 22:02:34 Wily NetworkManager[1578]: <info>  ModemManager available in the bus
  Aug 26 22:02:34 Wily NetworkManager[1578]: <info>  ofono is now available
  Aug 26 22:02:34 Wily NetworkManager[1578]: (NetworkManager:1578): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: /build/glib2.0-6GfMH1/glib2.0-2.45.4/./gobject/gsignal.c:2480: signal 'ModemAdded' is invalid for instance
  Aug 26 22:02:34 Wily NetworkManager[1578]: (NetworkManager:1578): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: /build/glib2.0-6GfMH1/glib2.0-2.45.4/./gobject/gsignal.c:2480: signal 'ModemRemoved' is invalid for instan
  Aug 26 22:02:34 Wily NetworkManager[1578]: (NetworkManager:1578): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_get_va: assertion 'value != NULL' failed
  Aug 26 22:02:34 Wily kernel: NetworkManager[1578]: segfault at c ip b6f4b97a sp bffb4890 error 4 in libglib-2.0.so.0.4504.0[b6ec8000+127000]
  Aug 26 22:02:34 Wily systemd[1]: NetworkManager.service: Main process exited, code=dumped, status=11/SEGV
  Aug 26 22:02:34 Wily systemd[1]: NetworkManager.service: Unit entered failed state.
  Aug 26 22:02:34 Wily systemd[1]: NetworkManager.service: Failed with result 'core-dump'.
  Aug 26 22:02:35 Wily systemd[1]: NetworkManager.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
  Aug 26 22:02:35 Wily systemd[1]: Stopped Network Manager.
  -- Subject: Unit NetworkManager.service has finished shutting down
  -- Defined-By: systemd
  -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
  --
  -- Unit NetworkManager.service has finished shutting down.
  Aug 26 22:02:35 Wily systemd[1]: NetworkManager.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
  Aug 26 22:02:35 Wily systemd[1]: Failed to start Network Manager.
  -- Subject: Unit NetworkManager.service has failed
  -- Defined-By: systemd
  -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
  --
  -- Unit NetworkManager.service has failed.
  --
  -- The result is failed.
  Aug 26 22:02:35 Wily systemd[1]: NetworkManager.service: Unit entered failed state.
  Aug 26 22:02:35 Wily systemd[1]: NetworkManager.service: Failed with result 'start-limit'.
  Aug 26 22:02:38 Wily systemd[1]: Started Daemon for generating UUIDs.
  -- Subject: Unit uuidd.service has finished start-up
  -- Defined-By: systemd
  -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
  --
  -- Unit uuidd.service has finished starting up.
  --
  -- The start-up result is done.

  .

  Host: Xubuntu 14.04.3
  VirtualBox 5.0.2

  Guest: Xubuntu 15.10 upgradet from 15.04

  network-manager
  Versions: 
  1.0.4-0ubuntu1

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References

[Bug 1489154] [NEW] NetworkManager does not start / fails to start
From: LAZA, 2015-08-26