2173196 – Warn in nmcli if NetworkManager daemon version doesn't match

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Bug 2173196 - Warn in nmcli if NetworkManager daemon version doesn't match

Summary: Warn in nmcli if NetworkManager daemon version doesn't match

Keywords:
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA
Alias:	None
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	NetworkManager
Sub Component:
Version:	9.3
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
Priority:	low
Severity:	medium
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Assignee:	Íñigo Huguet
QA Contact:	David Jaša
Docs Contact:
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+	depends on / blocked

Reported:	2023-02-24 17:12 UTC by Jeffrey Cutter
Modified:	2023-11-07 10:13 UTC (History)
CC List:	11 users (show)
Fixed In Version:	NetworkManager-1.44.0-1.el9
Doc Type:	No Doc Update
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed:	2023-11-07 08:37:57 UTC
Type:	Bug
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Dependent Products:

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System	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Issue Tracker	NMT-338	None	None	None	2023-02-24 17:13:47 UTC
Red Hat Issue Tracker	RHELPLAN-149870	None	None	None	2023-02-24 17:13:51 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata	RHBA-2023:6585	None	None	None	2023-11-07 08:38:29 UTC
freedesktop.org Gitlab	NetworkManager NetworkManager-ci merge_requests 1481	None	opened	Add NM mocker, use it to check for version mismatch between nmcli and the running daemon	2023-08-31 13:56:17 UTC

Description Jeffrey Cutter 2023-02-24 17:12:59 UTC

Description of problem:

After upgrading from RHEL 8.x to 8.7 nmcli commands do not work until NetworkManager service is restarted.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
1:1.40.0-5.el8_7

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1.Deploy RHEL <= 8.6.
2.yum update NetworkManager or yum update all with RHEL 8 repos containing RHEL 8.7 packages
3.Try to use nmcli to modify ipv4.dns-search or similar.

Actual results:
[root@rhel02 ~]# nmcli c m 5fb06bd0-0bb0-7ffb-45f1-d6edd65f3e03 ipv4.dns-search example.org
Error: Failed to modify connection 'eth0': ipv6.addr-gen-mode: property is invalid


Expected results:
[root@rhel02 ~]# nmcli c m 5fb06bd0-0bb0-7ffb-45f1-d6edd65f3e03 ipv4.dns-search example.org
[root@rhel02 ~]#

Comment 1 Jeffrey Cutter 2023-02-24 17:14:44 UTC

```
[root@rhel02 ~]# yum list NetworkManager --showduplicates
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
Last metadata expiration check: 0:09:33 ago on Fri 24 Feb 2023 11:50:33 AM EST.
Installed Packages
NetworkManager.x86_64                                                                                  1:1.30.0-7.el8                                                                                     @System                      
Available Packages
NetworkManager.x86_64                                                                                  1:1.14.0-14.el8                                                                                    rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms
NetworkManager.x86_64                                                                                  1:1.20.0-3.el8                                                                                     rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms
NetworkManager.x86_64                                                                                  1:1.20.0-5.el8_1                                                                                   rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms
NetworkManager.x86_64                                                                                  1:1.22.8-4.el8                                                                                     rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms
NetworkManager.x86_64                                                                                  1:1.22.8-5.el8_2                                                                                   rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms
NetworkManager.x86_64                                                                                  1:1.26.0-8.el8                                                                                     rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms
NetworkManager.x86_64                                                                                  1:1.26.0-9.el8_3                                                                                   rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms
NetworkManager.x86_64                                                                                  1:1.26.0-12.el8_3                                                                                  rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms
NetworkManager.x86_64                                                                                  1:1.26.0-13.el8_3                                                                                  rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms
NetworkManager.x86_64                                                                                  1:1.26.0-14.el8_3                                                                                  rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms
NetworkManager.x86_64                                                                                  1:1.30.0-7.el8                                                                                     rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms
NetworkManager.x86_64                                                                                  1:1.30.0-9.el8_4                                                                                   rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms
NetworkManager.x86_64                                                                                  1:1.30.0-10.el8_4                                                                                  rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms
NetworkManager.x86_64                                                                                  1:1.30.0-13.el8_4                                                                                  rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms
NetworkManager.x86_64                                                                                  1:1.32.10-4.el8                                                                                    rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms
NetworkManager.x86_64                                                                                  1:1.32.10-5.el8_5                                                                                  rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms
NetworkManager.x86_64                                                                                  1:1.36.0-4.el8                                                                                     rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms
NetworkManager.x86_64                                                                                  1:1.36.0-7.el8_6                                                                                   rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms
NetworkManager.x86_64                                                                                  1:1.36.0-9.el8_6                                                                                   rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms
NetworkManager.x86_64                                                                                  1:1.40.0-1.el8                                                                                     rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms
NetworkManager.x86_64                                                                                  1:1.40.0-2.el8_7                                                                                   rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms
NetworkManager.x86_64                                                                                  1:1.40.0-5.el8_7                                                                                   rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms
[root@rhel02 ~]# yum update NetworkManager
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
Last metadata expiration check: 0:09:46 ago on Fri 24 Feb 2023 11:50:33 AM EST.
Dependencies resolved.
=======================================================================================================================================================================================================================================
 Package                                                             Architecture                             Version                                            Repository                                                       Size
=======================================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Upgrading:
 NetworkManager                                                      x86_64                                   1:1.40.0-5.el8_7                                   rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms                                   2.3 M
 NetworkManager-libnm                                                x86_64                                   1:1.40.0-5.el8_7                                   rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms                                   1.9 M
 NetworkManager-team                                                 x86_64                                   1:1.40.0-5.el8_7                                   rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms                                   158 k
 NetworkManager-tui                                                  x86_64                                   1:1.40.0-5.el8_7                                   rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms                                   353 k
 jansson                                                             x86_64                                   2.14-1.el8                                         rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms                                    47 k
Installing dependencies:
 NetworkManager-initscripts-updown                                   noarch                                   1:1.40.0-5.el8_7                                   rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms                                   141 k

Transaction Summary
=======================================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Install  1 Package
Upgrade  5 Packages

Total download size: 4.8 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/6): jansson-2.14-1.el8.x86_64.rpm                                                                                                                                                                   114 kB/s |  47 kB     00:00    
(2/6): NetworkManager-initscripts-updown-1.40.0-5.el8_7.noarch.rpm                                                                                                                                     340 kB/s | 141 kB     00:00    
(3/6): NetworkManager-team-1.40.0-5.el8_7.x86_64.rpm                                                                                                                                                   339 kB/s | 158 kB     00:00    
(4/6): NetworkManager-1.40.0-5.el8_7.x86_64.rpm                                                                                                                                                        7.7 MB/s | 2.3 MB     00:00    
(5/6): NetworkManager-libnm-1.40.0-5.el8_7.x86_64.rpm                                                                                                                                                  5.6 MB/s | 1.9 MB     00:00    
(6/6): NetworkManager-tui-1.40.0-5.el8_7.x86_64.rpm                                                                                                                                                    297 kB/s | 353 kB     00:01    
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total                                                                                                                                                                                                  2.9 MB/s | 4.8 MB     00:01     
warning: /var/cache/dnf/rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms-51b3b78d5698246b/packages/NetworkManager-initscripts-updown-1.40.0-5.el8_7.noarch.rpm: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID fd431d51: NOKEY
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - BaseOS (RPMs)                                                                                                                                                  442 kB/s | 5.0 kB     00:00    
Importing GPG key 0xFD431D51:
 Userid     : "Red Hat, Inc. (release key 2) <security>"
 Fingerprint: 567E 347A D004 4ADE 55BA 8A5F 199E 2F91 FD43 1D51
 From       : /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Key imported successfully
Importing GPG key 0xD4082792:
 Userid     : "Red Hat, Inc. (auxiliary key) <security>"
 Fingerprint: 6A6A A7C9 7C88 90AE C6AE BFE2 F76F 66C3 D408 2792
 From       : /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Key imported successfully
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
  Preparing        :                                                                                                                                                                                                               1/1 
  Running scriptlet: NetworkManager-libnm-1:1.40.0-5.el8_7.x86_64                                                                                                                                                                  1/1 
  Upgrading        : NetworkManager-libnm-1:1.40.0-5.el8_7.x86_64                                                                                                                                                                 1/11 
  Running scriptlet: NetworkManager-libnm-1:1.40.0-5.el8_7.x86_64                                                                                                                                                                 1/11 
  Running scriptlet: NetworkManager-1:1.40.0-5.el8_7.x86_64                                                                                                                                                                       2/11 
  Upgrading        : NetworkManager-1:1.40.0-5.el8_7.x86_64                                                                                                                                                                       2/11 
  Running scriptlet: NetworkManager-1:1.40.0-5.el8_7.x86_64                                                                                                                                                                       2/11 
  Installing       : NetworkManager-initscripts-updown-1:1.40.0-5.el8_7.noarch                                                                                                                                                    3/11 
  Running scriptlet: NetworkManager-initscripts-updown-1:1.40.0-5.el8_7.noarch                                                                                                                                                    3/11 
  Upgrading        : jansson-2.14-1.el8.x86_64                                                                                                                                                                                    4/11 
  Upgrading        : NetworkManager-team-1:1.40.0-5.el8_7.x86_64                                                                                                                                                                  5/11 
  Upgrading        : NetworkManager-tui-1:1.40.0-5.el8_7.x86_64                                                                                                                                                                   6/11 
  Cleanup          : NetworkManager-tui-1:1.30.0-7.el8.x86_64                                                                                                                                                                     7/11 
  Cleanup          : NetworkManager-team-1:1.30.0-7.el8.x86_64                                                                                                                                                                    8/11 
  Running scriptlet: NetworkManager-1:1.30.0-7.el8.x86_64                                                                                                                                                                         9/11 
  Cleanup          : NetworkManager-1:1.30.0-7.el8.x86_64                                                                                                                                                                         9/11 
  Running scriptlet: NetworkManager-1:1.30.0-7.el8.x86_64                                                                                                                                                                         9/11 
  Cleanup          : NetworkManager-libnm-1:1.30.0-7.el8.x86_64                                                                                                                                                                  10/11 
  Running scriptlet: NetworkManager-libnm-1:1.30.0-7.el8.x86_64                                                                                                                                                                  10/11 
  Cleanup          : jansson-2.11-3.el8.x86_64                                                                                                                                                                                   11/11 
  Running scriptlet: jansson-2.11-3.el8.x86_64                                                                                                                                                                                   11/11 
  Verifying        : NetworkManager-initscripts-updown-1:1.40.0-5.el8_7.noarch                                                                                                                                                    1/11 
  Verifying        : jansson-2.14-1.el8.x86_64                                                                                                                                                                                    2/11 
  Verifying        : jansson-2.11-3.el8.x86_64                                                                                                                                                                                    3/11 
  Verifying        : NetworkManager-team-1:1.40.0-5.el8_7.x86_64                                                                                                                                                                  4/11 
  Verifying        : NetworkManager-team-1:1.30.0-7.el8.x86_64                                                                                                                                                                    5/11 
  Verifying        : NetworkManager-1:1.40.0-5.el8_7.x86_64                                                                                                                                                                       6/11 
  Verifying        : NetworkManager-1:1.30.0-7.el8.x86_64                                                                                                                                                                         7/11 
  Verifying        : NetworkManager-libnm-1:1.40.0-5.el8_7.x86_64                                                                                                                                                                 8/11 
  Verifying        : NetworkManager-libnm-1:1.30.0-7.el8.x86_64                                                                                                                                                                   9/11 
  Verifying        : NetworkManager-tui-1:1.40.0-5.el8_7.x86_64                                                                                                                                                                  10/11 
  Verifying        : NetworkManager-tui-1:1.30.0-7.el8.x86_64                                                                                                                                                                    11/11 
Installed products updated.

Upgraded:
  NetworkManager-1:1.40.0-5.el8_7.x86_64       NetworkManager-libnm-1:1.40.0-5.el8_7.x86_64       NetworkManager-team-1:1.40.0-5.el8_7.x86_64       NetworkManager-tui-1:1.40.0-5.el8_7.x86_64       jansson-2.14-1.el8.x86_64      
Installed:
  NetworkManager-initscripts-updown-1:1.40.0-5.el8_7.noarch                                                                                                                                                                            

Complete!
[root@rhel02 ~]# nmcli c s
NAME  UUID                                  TYPE      DEVICE 
eth0  5fb06bd0-0bb0-7ffb-45f1-d6edd65f3e03  ethernet  eth0   
[root@rhel02 ~]# nmcli c m 5fb06bd0-0bb0-7ffb-45f1-d6edd65f3e03 ipv4.dns-search example.org
Error: Failed to modify connection 'eth0': ipv6.addr-gen-mode: property is invalid
[root@rhel02 ~]# systemctl status NetworkManager
● NetworkManager.service - Network Manager
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Fri 2023-02-24 11:06:12 EST; 54min ago
     Docs: man:NetworkManager(8)
 Main PID: 746 (NetworkManager)
    Tasks: 3 (limit: 23484)
   Memory: 7.3M
   CGroup: /system.slice/NetworkManager.service
           └─746 /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon

Feb 24 11:06:12 rhel02 NetworkManager[746]: <info>  [1677254772.9982] device (eth0): state change: ip-config -> ip-check (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed')
Feb 24 11:06:13 rhel02 NetworkManager[746]: <info>  [1677254773.0070] device (eth0): state change: ip-check -> secondaries (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed')
Feb 24 11:06:13 rhel02 NetworkManager[746]: <info>  [1677254773.0073] device (eth0): state change: secondaries -> activated (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed')
Feb 24 11:06:13 rhel02 NetworkManager[746]: <info>  [1677254773.0083] manager: NetworkManager state is now CONNECTED_LOCAL
Feb 24 11:06:13 rhel02 NetworkManager[746]: <info>  [1677254773.0097] manager: NetworkManager state is now CONNECTED_SITE
Feb 24 11:06:13 rhel02 NetworkManager[746]: <info>  [1677254773.0111] policy: set 'eth0' (eth0) as default for IPv4 routing and DNS
Feb 24 11:06:13 rhel02 NetworkManager[746]: <info>  [1677254773.0135] device (eth0): Activation: successful, device activated.
Feb 24 11:06:13 rhel02 NetworkManager[746]: <info>  [1677254773.0151] manager: NetworkManager state is now CONNECTED_GLOBAL
Feb 24 11:06:13 rhel02 NetworkManager[746]: <info>  [1677254773.0182] manager: startup complete
Feb 24 12:00:45 rhel02 NetworkManager[746]: <info>  [1677258045.1513] audit: op="connection-update" uuid="5fb06bd0-0bb0-7ffb-45f1-d6edd65f3e03" name="eth0" result="fail" reason="ipv6.addr-gen-mode: property is invalid"
[root@rhel02 ~]# date
Fri Feb 24 12:00:59 EST 2023
[root@rhel02 ~]# systemctl restart NetworkManager
[root@rhel02 ~]# nmcli c m 5fb06bd0-0bb0-7ffb-45f1-d6edd65f3e03 ipv4.dns-search example.org
[root@rhel02 ~]#
```

Comment 2 Till Maas 2023-03-06 19:59:38 UTC

Thanks Jeffrey for the report. Just wondering, do you have any expectation/idea what to do about this? Making nmcli not require NM to be restarted is unfeasible, automatically restarting NM seems to be too dangerous. Is there anything how we should signal that NM might need to be manually restarted?

Comment 3 Jeffrey Cutter 2023-03-07 16:53:25 UTC

Hi Till,

I'm working from the (possibly wrong) assumption that all packages being updated shy of the kernel should refresh services as necessary to keep them working as expected and running the latest code.  Hence my reporting of this issue.

My workaround to the issue was to automate restarting NetworkManager prior to using the nmcli command.

I just found the following solutions document:

https://access.redhat.com/solutions/5943031

Perhaps there is something short of a complete restart of NetworkManager that can be done instead to get nmcli working again?

Shy of some other way to ensure nmcli is functional, at the very least, if nmcli is run in this state, signaling that a restart of NetworkManager is required to be able to use nmcli would be a lot more user friendly than the confusing errors provided currently.

Thanks,
-Jeff

Comment 4 Till Maas 2023-03-07 18:32:10 UTC

It might be feasible to add a warning to nmcli in case NetworKManager is newer than nmcli (or libnm I guess) to consider restarting NM. If we are doing this, we would target RHEL 9. What are your thoughts about this?

Comment 5 Jeffrey Cutter 2023-03-07 20:24:50 UTC

That sounds reasonable to me.

Comment 6 Thomas Haller 2023-04-13 15:01:57 UTC

Btw, Doing major upgrades (rhel8.x->8.7) without offline-update or reboot, seems a bad idea (on any mildly important system).

Also, installing NetworkManager package does not restart the daemon (for certain reasons). Usually you would avoid problems by rebooting/offline-update, or at least have `yum install` followed by `systemctl restart NetworkManager`.

But sure, that is not entirely obvious. A warning in nmcli would have helper with that.

---

In the past, nmcli checked the version and errored out if it differed. That was too strict, because usually it is supposed to work. That check was then dropped ([1]). However, merely printing a warning might be a good idea still.

[1] https://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/?id=3c67a1ec5e8ef35169bba961faff6bfdfacc1cfa.

---

The actual bug here is

> Actual results:
> [root@rhel02 ~]# nmcli c m 5fb06bd0-0bb0-7ffb-45f1-d6edd65f3e03 ipv4.dns-search example.org
> Error: Failed to modify connection 'eth0': ipv6.addr-gen-mode: property is invalid
>
>
> Expected results:
> [root@rhel02 ~]# nmcli c m 5fb06bd0-0bb0-7ffb-45f1-d6edd65f3e03 ipv4.dns-search example.org
> [root@rhel02 ~]#

While doing it this way is questionable, the expectation that this should work is justified.
NetworkManager clients and the daemon are supposed to be backward compatible in both ways, precisely because it's easy to run into a situation where the version differs. It's a bug that it doesn't work, and it should be found out what exactly went wrong.

Comment 7 Beniamino Galvani 2023-04-14 16:59:09 UTC

(In reply to Thomas Haller from comment #6)
> > [root@rhel02 ~]# nmcli c m 5fb06bd0-0bb0-7ffb-45f1-d6edd65f3e03 ipv4.dns-search example.org
> > Error: Failed to modify connection 'eth0': ipv6.addr-gen-mode: property is invalid

> NetworkManager clients and the daemon are supposed to be backward compatible
> in both ways, precisely because it's easy to run into a situation where the
> version differs. It's a bug that it doesn't work, and it should be found out
> what exactly went wrong.

This is fixed by commit [1] in NM 1.40.2 and later.

[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/commit/70060d570b4b35e029a5d6ab8aa8026563ad580c

Comment 8 Till Maas 2023-05-10 14:20:17 UTC

(In reply to Thomas Haller from comment #6)

> NetworkManager clients and the daemon are supposed to be backward compatible
> in both ways, precisely because it's easy to run into a situation where the
> version differs. It's a bug that it doesn't work, and it should be found out
> what exactly went wrong.

If this is a basic requirement for NM, this needs to be tested by integration tests. Do we have these?

Comment 9 Thomas Haller 2023-05-12 11:51:57 UTC

(In reply to Till Maas from comment #8)
> If this is a basic requirement for NM, this needs to be tested by
> integration tests. Do we have these?

no.

Comment 12 David Jaša 2023-08-21 08:51:52 UTC

VERIFIED in 1.44.0-1.el9:
- when nmcli is of higher version than the running daemon, warning is printed (upgrade scenario)
- when nmcli is of lower version than the running daemon, warning is not issued (downgrade scenario)

> (In reply to Till Maas from comment #8)
>
> If this is a basic requirement for NM, this needs to be tested by
> integration tests. Do we have these?

We don't and this would be quite hard to add:
- one of basic assumptions of NM CI is that the NM is installed at the beginning and it's not touched with an exception of additional packages of the same version
- testing of git main would only be possible with some mocking in place (daemon pretending to be of a lower version or nmcli of higher)
- in principle, it should be possible to test this in downstream OS tooling however the tooling would have to be probably extended to accommodate custom tests

Comment 13 Íñigo Huguet 2023-08-21 08:57:23 UTC

Hi David,

(In reply to David Jaša from comment #12)
> - when nmcli is of lower version than the running daemon, warning is not
> issued (downgrade scenario)

Are you sure of this? It should warn if the version is not exactly the same, it doesn't matter if it's lower or higher.

Comment 14 David Jaša 2023-08-21 09:09:40 UTC

(In reply to Íñigo Huguet from comment #13)
> Hi David,
> 
> (In reply to David Jaša from comment #12)
> > - when nmcli is of lower version than the running daemon, warning is not
> > issued (downgrade scenario)
> 
> Are you sure of this? It should warn if the version is not exactly the same,
> it doesn't matter if it's lower or higher.

When you ask, I'm actually not. It's not possible to downgrade to a version that would have this fix right now (essentially the same problem as my 2nd bullet of CI difficulties) and I didn't realize it when testing (and then writing).

Comment 15 David Jaša 2023-08-31 13:56:17 UTC

(In reply to David Jaša from comment #12)
> ...
> > (In reply to Till Maas from comment #8)
> >
> > If this is a basic requirement for NM, this needs to be tested by
> > integration tests. Do we have these?
> 
> We don't and this would be quite hard to add:
> - one of basic assumptions of NM CI is that the NM is installed at the
> beginning and it's not touched with an exception of additional packages of
> the same version
> - testing of git main would only be possible with some mocking in place
> (daemon pretending to be of a lower version or nmcli of higher)
> - in principle, it should be possible to test this in downstream OS tooling
> however the tooling would have to be probably extended to accommodate custom
> tests

It will be covered using mocking (to test both lower and higher version)

(In reply to David Jaša from comment #14)
> (In reply to Íñigo Huguet from comment #13)
> > Hi David,
> > 
> > (In reply to David Jaša from comment #12)
> > > - when nmcli is of lower version than the running daemon, warning is not
> > > issued (downgrade scenario)
> > 
> > Are you sure of this? It should warn if the version is not exactly the same,
> > it doesn't matter if it's lower or higher.
> 
> When you ask, I'm actually not. It's not possible to downgrade to a version
> that would have this fix right now (essentially the same problem as my 2nd
> bullet of CI difficulties) and I didn't realize it when testing (and then
> writing).

It works both ways, sorry for the noise.

Comment 17 errata-xmlrpc 2023-11-07 08:37:57 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 (NetworkManager bug fix and enhancement update), 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/RHBA-2023:6585

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