| Summary: | Always start online check box does not work | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | David Rees <drees76> |
| Component: | thunderbird | Assignee: | Martin Stransky <stransky> |
| Status: | CLOSED UPSTREAM | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 16 | CC: | gecko-bugs-nobody, joe, stransky |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Reopened |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2012-02-28 09:23:34 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
David Rees
2012-02-13 16:50:15 UTC
I have the same issue because NM mangles my DNS at boot, so I can't use it. I went to Edit-Preferences-Advanced-Network & Disk Space-Offline Settings and selected Always start up Online, but it doesn't make the slightest bit of difference. Thunderbird simply ignores the setting. This is related to bug 785618 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=785618) referring to the fact that NM will always report that an interface is down if it doesn't manage it instead of checking and returning the actual status. I see. There's nothing we can do with it on the mozilla side, it's a bug in NM. You can disable it by setting "network.manage-offline-status" to false. One of the way how to do it is to set "about:config" as a homepage in thunderbird (Edit->Preferences->General) and then choose "Go->Mail Start Page". Setting network.manage-offline-status to false has no effect. Surely it's a bug in Thunderbird that it can't ignore NetworkManager when there is at least one about:config setting that should configure Thunderbird to do so? Yes - the NM bug should be fixed as well - but TB should respect toolkit.networkmanger.disable or network.manage-offline-status. (In reply to comment #3) > Setting network.manage-offline-status to false has no effect. > > Surely it's a bug in Thunderbird that it can't ignore NetworkManager when there > is at least one about:config setting that should configure Thunderbird to do > so? > > Yes - the NM bug should be fixed as well - but TB should respect > toolkit.networkmanger.disable or network.manage-offline-status. Yes, you're right. So any of the options do not work for you, right? (In reply to comment #4) > Yes, you're right. So any of the options do not work for you, right? Yes, I can't get any to work. toolkit.networkmanager.disable = true does not work. network.manage-offline-status = false does not work. The magic options seems to be:
pref("toolkit.networkmanager.disable", false);
pref("offline.autoDetect", true);
so setting offline.autoDetect to false should work for you.
I can confirm that setting toolkit.networkmanager.disable to true and offline.autoDetect to false works around the NetworkManager bug. I got there by going to Edit-Preferences-Advanced-General-Config Editor. Toggling both of those options worked. Still, it shouldn't ignore the option under Network & Diskspace-Offline that says "Always start online." Selecting that should disable any network checks because if it doesn't, there's no point in having it." (In reply to comment #8) > I got there by going to Edit-Preferences-Advanced-General-Config Editor. > Toggling both of those options worked. Still, it shouldn't ignore the option > under Network & Diskspace-Offline that says "Always start online." Selecting > that should disable any network checks because if it doesn't, there's no point > in having it." Yeah, that's a good point. I think we'd need an extra switch there - which enables/disables NM to control the online/offline state. Moving upstream https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=731145 |