Bug 476454
| Summary: | Firefox always starts in offline mode. | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Steven W. Orr <steveo> |
| Component: | NetworkManager | Assignee: | Dan Williams <dcbw> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 10 | CC: | dcbw, gvarisco, wtogami |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2009-02-13 15:27:15 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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I wanted to add a note about what my network configuration looks like.
I have a cable modem and I get my address from my ISP through DHCP.
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:13:D4:D1:B7:7C
inet addr:207.172.210.41 Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.255.224
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3671731 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1809683 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1432443064 (1.3 GiB) TX bytes:775450714 (739.5 MiB)
Interrupt:17
What's the output of /usr/bin/nm-tool? Firefox will report it is offline *if* NetworkManager is running, and you have not allowed NetworkManager to control your primary internet connection. In this situation, either allow NetworkManager to control your primary internet connection, or turn NetworkManager off with '/sbin/chkconfig NetworkManager off'. Output of nm-tool: 521 > /usr/bin/nm-tool NetworkManager Tool State: disconnected ** (process:15248): WARNING **: nm_client_get_devices: error getting devices: A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient, see message bus configuration file (rejected message had interface "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" member "GetDevices" error name "(unset)" destination "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager") (process:15248): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_ptr_array_foreach: assertion `array' failed 522 > Do I need to do something to allow NetworkManager to control my interface? This seems to be due to the recent dbus security update problems... There's an update right now to dbus to revert the security fix (which didnt' affect NM anyway). You'll want to grab that and see. How have you configured your primary internet connection so far? "How have you configured your primary internet connection so far?" I'm not sure how to answer that question better than I already did above. It's a dhcp connection to my cablemodem provider. I run a yum update and verified that I have all of the latest packages: [root@saturn ~]# rpm -qa | grep dbus ndesk-dbus-0.6.1a-2.fc9.i386 python-slip-dbus-0.1.15-1.fc10.noarch dbus-libs-1.2.8-1.fc10.i386 ndesk-dbus-glib-0.4.1-3.fc9.i386 dbus-glib-devel-0.76-3.fc10.i386 dbus-x11-1.2.8-1.fc10.i386 dbus-glib-0.76-3.fc10.i386 dbus-1.2.8-1.fc10.i386 dbus-qt-0.70-4.fc9.i386 dbus-python-0.83.0-3.fc10.i386 dbus-devel-1.2.8-1.fc10.i386 [root@saturn ~]# yum update dbus-libs ndesk-dbus-glib dbus-glib-devel dbus-x11 dbus-glib dbus dbus-qt dbus-python dbus-devel Loaded plugins: priorities, refresh-packagekit Setting up Update Process No Packages marked for Update [root@saturn ~]# I think the question still remains, which is, do I need to somehow make my interface (eth0) be managed by NetworkManager instead of by network, and if so, how do I do this? You should be able to set your interface managed by NetworkManager using 'system-config-network'. (In reply to comment #3) > Do I need to do something to allow NetworkManager to control my interface? You have two choices really: either turn NetworkManager off if you don't want to use it (as root in a terminal, 'chkconfig NetworkManager off', then 'service NetworkManager stop'), or you can allow NetworkManager to control the interface. Can you post the contents of your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file? If that has "NM_CONTROLLED=no" in it, that means NetworkManager will ignore the interface entirely. It is turned off. *535 > cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 # Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8001 Gigabit Ethernet Controller DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp HWADDR=00:13:d4:d1:b7:7c ONBOOT=yes DHCP_HOSTNAME=saturn.syslang.net SEARCH="syslang.net" NM_CONTROLLED=no TYPE=Ethernet USERCTL=no IPV6INIT=no 536 > That solves the problem. Ok, thanks for the update. |
Description of problem: Firefox always starts in offline mode. I can switch Firefox to be online but it comes up offline by default every time. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): [root@saturn system.d]# rpm -qf NetworkManager.conf NetworkManager-0.7.0-0.12.svn4326.fc10.i386 [root@saturn system.d]# rpm -q firefox firefox-3.0.4-1.fc10.i386 [root@saturn system.d]# rpm -q dbus dbus-1.2.8-1.fc10.i386 [root@saturn system.d]# How reproducible: firefox Then see if it's online. (It's not.) Steps to Reproduce: 1. firefox 2. 3. Actual results: It's offline Expected results: Should be online. Additional info: I have a workaround: Change every instance in /etc/dbus-1/system.d/NetworkManager.conf of <allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"/> to <deny send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"/>