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Bug 1058308

Summary: Enabling mobile broadband causes X failure
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Vera Budikova <vbudikov>
Component: NetworkManagerAssignee: Dan Williams <dcbw>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 7.0CC: dcbw, vbenes, vbudikov
Target Milestone: rc   
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: NetworkManager-0.9.9.1-0.git20140228.el7 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2014-06-13 10:05:08 UTC Type: Bug
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/var/log/messages and /var/log/Xorg.1.log none

Description Vera Budikova 2014-01-27 13:49:06 UTC
Created attachment 856069 [details]
/var/log/messages and /var/log/Xorg.1.log

Description of problem:
Enable mobile broadband causes failing X

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kde-plasma-networkmanagement-0.9.0.9-4.el7.x86_64
kde-plasma-networkmanagement-mobile-0.9.0.9-4.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Plug in USB Mobile Broadband modem.
2. Click on the applet icon.
3. Check "Enable mobile broadband".

Actual results:
Enabling mobile broadband causes X failure (see logs attachment).

Expected results:
It is possible to enable mobile broadband without failures.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Lukáš Tinkl 2014-01-27 14:11:00 UTC
Reassigning to Jan Grulich

Comment 3 Jan Grulich 2014-02-05 10:24:57 UTC
This doesn't seem to be a problem in kde-plasma-networkmanagement, can you please try to run this command [1] to enable mobile broadband manually, so we can be sure it's not a problem in kde-plasma-networkmanagement?

[1] -
dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Set string:"org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" string:"WwanEnabled" variant:boolean:true

Comment 4 Vera Budikova 2014-02-06 09:23:23 UTC
Steps:

1. Start QDbusViewer
2. Click on System Bus tab.
3. Click on org.freedesktop.NetworkManager
4. org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager
5. Right click on Property: WwanEnabled -> Set Value -> true

Results:
Enabling mobile broadband via QDbusViewer causes X failure.

Comment 5 Jan Grulich 2014-02-06 09:51:28 UTC
This is not definitely a bug in kde-plasma-networkmanagement. Maybe in NetworkManager?

Comment 6 Dan Williams 2014-02-13 18:50:20 UTC
(NOTE: making this bug public since there's no reason it should be private...)

I have no idea why X fails here (it does appear to segfault), but NetworkManager also dies:

Jan 27 12:37:56 dhcp131-49 NetworkManager[3854]: <info> (ttyUSB2): device state change: unavailable -> disconnected (reason 'none') [20 30 0]
Jan 27 12:39:15 dhcp131-49 NetworkManager[3854]: <warn> (ttyUSB2) cannot enable modem: locked
Jan 27 12:39:15 dhcp131-49 NetworkManager[3854]: <info> (ttyUSB2): device state change: disconnected -> need-auth (reason 'none') [30 60 0]
Jan 27 12:39:15 dhcp131-49 NetworkManager: **
Jan 27 12:39:15 dhcp131-49 NetworkManager: ERROR:nm-policy.c:142:get_best_ip4_device: assertion failed: (req)

and of course it shouldn't.  This is a pretty old build of NetworkManager though, there are newer ones available in more recent RHEL7 snapshots.  In any case, I believe I have a fix for this already in the dcbw/wwan-fu branch upstream, which is undergoing review.

Comment 7 Dan Williams 2014-02-21 15:45:18 UTC
Merged to git master.

Comment 11 Ludek Smid 2014-06-13 10:05:08 UTC
This request was resolved in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0.

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