Bug 710657

Summary: Bug in NetworkManager-0.8.9997-1.git20110531.fc15.i686 causes programs to crash when attempting to access Internet
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: John Dulaney <jdulaney>
Component: NetworkManagerAssignee: Dan Williams <dcbw>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority: unspecified    
Version: 15CC: bwalker, dcbw, jklimes
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Hardware: i686   
OS: Linux   
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Description John Dulaney 2011-06-03 23:04:42 UTC
Description of problem:
I ran Yum Update with Updates-Testing as per usual and NM was updated.  Afterwards, Firefox started crashing, and still does about 20% of the time.  IRSSI and Empephany don't seem to crash, but they won't connect to IRC or Facebook.  Fedora-easy-karma fails 100% of the time, yum fails 80%; both give seg fault errors as their output.  The Gnome clock applet crashes 100% of the time when it tries to synchronize with network time.  konqueror fails 100% of the time.

When I could get yum to work, it would not allow me to downgrade, giving the following output:
[root@jdulaney ~]# yum downgrade NetworkManager
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Downgrade Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package NetworkManager.i686 1:0.8.999-2.git20110509.fc15 will be a downgrade
--> Processing Dependency: NetworkManager-glib = 1:0.8.999-2.git20110509.fc15 for package: 1:NetworkManager-0.8.999-2.git20110509.fc15.i686
---> Package NetworkManager.i686 1:0.8.9997-1.git20110531.fc15 will be erased
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: 1:NetworkManager-gnome-0.8.9997-1.git20110531.fc15.i686 (@updates)
           Requires: NetworkManager = 1:0.8.9997-1.git20110531.fc15
           Removing: 1:NetworkManager-0.8.9997-1.git20110531.fc15.i686 (@updates)
               NetworkManager = 1:0.8.9997-1.git20110531.fc15
           Downgraded By: 1:NetworkManager-0.8.999-2.git20110509.fc15.i686 (fedora)
               NetworkManager = 1:0.8.999-2.git20110509.fc15
Error: Package: 1:NetworkManager-0.8.999-2.git20110509.fc15.i686 (fedora)
           Requires: NetworkManager-glib = 1:0.8.999-2.git20110509.fc15
           Installed: 1:NetworkManager-glib-0.8.9997-1.git20110531.fc15.i686 (@updates)
               NetworkManager-glib = 1:0.8.9997-1.git20110531.fc15
           Available: 1:NetworkManager-glib-0.8.999-2.git20110509.fc15.i686 (fedora)
               NetworkManager-glib = 1:0.8.999-2.git20110509.fc15
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
See title


How reproducible:
See above.  Reproducibility goes up in inverse proportion to wifi signal strength.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open up any program the access the internet
2. Failure rate as noted above

Comment 1 Jirka Klimes 2011-06-06 08:51:31 UTC
Why do you think that NetworkManager will cause crashes to other programs? It won't.
If you see a crash of Firefox (or something else), please report that via abrt or manually to appropriate component.

In case, you have problems with establishing a network connection, attach /var/log/messages to this report.

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