Bug 847529 - Network icon disappears in gnome shell and eventually networking stops.
Summary: Network icon disappears in gnome shell and eventually networking stops.
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: NetworkManager
Version: 16
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dan Williams
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-08-12 17:10 UTC by Richard Shaw
Modified: 2013-02-13 13:56 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-02-13 13:56:24 UTC
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Description Richard Shaw 2012-08-12 17:10:34 UTC
Description of problem:
The network applet disappears at some point and a while later networking stops all together.

Additionally I can not remote ssh into the machine after a period of time even though outbound connections continue to work until all networking ceases.

Networking has been problematic on this laptop (Atheros chip, ath9k driver) since F15.

Restarting NetworkManager sometimes fixes the problem, but not always, sometimes dbus appears to die.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
# rpm -qa | grep NetworkManager
NetworkManager-glib-0.9.4-6.git20120521.fc16.x86_64
NetworkManager-vpnc-0.9.0-1.fc16.x86_64
NetworkManager-openconnect-0.9.4.0-7.git20120612.fc16.x86_64
NetworkManager-gnome-0.9.4-6.git20120521.fc16.x86_64
NetworkManager-openvpn-0.9.0-1.fc16.x86_64
NetworkManager-gtk-0.9.4-6.git20120521.fc16.x86_64
NetworkManager-0.9.4-6.git20120521.fc16.x86_64
NetworkManager-pptp-0.9.0-1.fc16.x86_64

How reproducible:
Every time


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Reboot and login
2. use system normally
  
Actual results:
gnome shell nm applet disappears and later networking fails.


Expected results:
Networking continues to work normally.


Additional info:

# uname -r
3.4.7-1.fc16.x86_64

/var/log/messages snippet:
Aug 12 11:52:33 ladyhobbes dbus[1604]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit'
Aug 12 11:52:33 ladyhobbes dbus-daemon[1604]: dbus[1604]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit'
Aug 12 11:52:33 ladyhobbes dbus-daemon[1604]: (packagekitd:3858): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_ptr_array_foreach: assertion `array' failed
Aug 12 11:52:33 ladyhobbes dbus-daemon[1604]: (packagekitd:3858): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_ptr_array_free: assertion `array' failed
Aug 12 11:52:52 ladyhobbes NetworkManager[999]: dbus_g_proxy_begin_call: assertion `!DBUS_G_PROXY_DESTROYED (proxy)' failed
Aug 12 11:52:52 ladyhobbes NetworkManager[999]: nm_supplicant_info_set_call: assertion `call != NULL' failed
Aug 12 11:53:35 ladyhobbes NetworkManager[999]: dbus_g_proxy_begin_call: assertion `!DBUS_G_PROXY_DESTROYED (proxy)' failed
Aug 12 11:53:35 ladyhobbes NetworkManager[999]: nm_supplicant_info_set_call: assertion `call != NULL' failed
Aug 12 11:54:18 ladyhobbes NetworkManager[999]: dbus_g_proxy_begin_call: assertion `!DBUS_G_PROXY_DESTROYED (proxy)' failed
Aug 12 11:54:18 ladyhobbes NetworkManager[999]: nm_supplicant_info_set_call: assertion `call != NULL' failed

Comment 1 Jan Pazdziora 2012-08-26 17:58:56 UTC
Confirming. Restarting the NetworkManager service helped to bring the icon and get the network back to working, at least for now.

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