Bug 1394334

Summary: [RFE] Improve NetworkManager error handling
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Lubomir Rintel <lrintel>
Component: NetworkManagerAssignee: Lubomir Rintel <lrintel>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
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Version: 7.4CC: aloughla, atragler, bgalvani, fgiudici, lrintel, mleitner, rkhan, sukulkar, thaller, vbenes
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Fixed In Version: NetworkManager-1.8.0-0.4.rc1.el7 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Last Closed: 2017-08-01 09:19:37 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Lubomir Rintel 2016-11-11 18:06:53 UTC 
Whenever connecting fails we are not too good at communicating the reason; whether DHCP timed out, not able to configure LL address, bad VPN password, etc.

Let's see what can be done about this.
Comment 1 Lubomir Rintel 2017-03-28 14:02:41 UTC 
Went in upstream: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779627
Comment 4 Lubomir Rintel 2017-05-26 13:47:15 UTC 
[root@belphegor NetworkManager]# nmcli c add type wifi ssid trolofon ifname '*' con-name lala
Connection 'lala' (ddee22a6-0e20-4f0a-9bd2-735de094ad62) successfully added.
[root@belphegor NetworkManager]# nmcli c up lala
Error: Connection activation failed: The Wi-Fi network could not be found
[root@belphegor NetworkManager]# 

You would get a "Error: Connection activation failed." before.
Comment 5 Vladimir Benes 2017-06-29 13:23:40 UTC 
All errors do show as before and some of them are even better.
Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-01 09:19:37 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2299