Description of problem: When I run the command "ifup XXX" (where XXX is the network device name, for example eth0 in a default KVM install, or p2p1 for VirtualBox) I get the error Error: Can't obtain connections: settings service is not running. This happens whether the network is up or down initially. If the network is initially down, it stays down. I see it with both a minimal install and a full graphical install (both updated). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): initscripts-9.37-1.fc17 How reproducible: always
Interestingly, in Rawhide with initscripts-9.37-1.fc18, I get a different error: [root@localhost ~]# ifup p2p1 GLib-WARNING **: (gerror.c:390):g_error_new_valist: runtime check failed: (domain != 0) Error: No suitable device found: no device found for connection 'System p2p1'.
Note that ifup blah redirects to nmcli (nmcli con something something), which is what's actually giving the error. Trying many nmcli commands gives the error. -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
Discussed at 2012-03-26 QA meeting acting as a blocker review meeting. As the impact of this bug combined with 806466 is broadly the same as #804716 for TC2, and we took 804716 as NTH, we agreed that this bug and 806466 should be accepted as NTH but rejected as blockers. -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
I can reproduce this with any F17 install and on my desktop. Any 'nmcli con' command seems to return this error, run as root or regular user. -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
Seems jirka is working on this: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/?id=dd0460697c4e281fe277b53916d5251332e1aafc
That fix is wrong though. (It fixes this problem, but it undoes all the earlier work to make it possible to initialize NM asynchronously.)
NetworkManager-0.9.4.0-1.git20120328.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/NetworkManager-0.9.4.0-1.git20120328.fc17
NetworkManager-0.9.4.0-1.git20120328.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Confirmed fixed in VirtualBox minimal GUI DVD installs of Beta RC2 (i386 and x86_64). "ifup p2p1" works.