GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 656553
nm-applet offline-icon is shown allthough internet-connection exists
Last modified: 2020-11-12 14:29:41 UTC
Created attachment 193852 [details] Picture of the described behaviour. I'm using Debian Testing with Gnome3 installed from Unstable/Experimental It happens very often, that the nm-applet icon shows the icon for offline-status allthough that i'm connected to the internet. # apt-cache show network-manager | grep Version Version: 0.8.9997-1 # apt-cache show gnome-session | grep Version Version: 3.0.2-1 # uname -r 3.0.0-1-amd64
I'm connected to the internet via Android tethering (Azilink+Droid-Tether-SV) which causes this bug. adb: no process found openvpn: no process found * daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 * * daemon started successfully * Tue Aug 16 16:34:53 2011 OpenVPN 2.1.0 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [SSL] [LZO2] [EPOLL] [PKCS11] [MH] [PF_INET6] [eurephia] built on Jul 12 2010 Tue Aug 16 16:34:53 2011 WARNING: --ping should normally be used with --ping-restart or --ping-exit Tue Aug 16 16:34:53 2011 NOTE: OpenVPN 2.1 requires '--script-security 2' or higher to call user-defined scripts or executables Tue Aug 16 16:34:53 2011 ******* WARNING *******: all encryption and authentication features disabled -- all data will be tunnelled as cleartext Tue Aug 16 16:34:53 2011 TUN/TAP device tun0 opened Tue Aug 16 16:34:53 2011 /sbin/ifconfig tun0 192.168.56.2 pointopoint 192.168.56.1 mtu 1500 Tue Aug 16 16:34:53 2011 Attempting to establish TCP connection with [AF_INET]127.0.0.1:41927 [nonblock] Tue Aug 16 16:34:53 2011 TCP connection established with [AF_INET]127.0.0.1:41927 Tue Aug 16 16:34:53 2011 TCPv4_CLIENT link local: [undef] Tue Aug 16 16:34:53 2011 TCPv4_CLIENT link remote: [AF_INET]127.0.0.1:41927 Tue Aug 16 16:35:02 2011 Peer Connection Initiated with [AF_INET]127.0.0.1:41927 Tue Aug 16 16:35:03 2011 Initialization Sequence Completed
I forgot to mention, that i'm connected to the internet via mobile broadband with a Huawei Surfstick.
Interested in the conclusion of this bug. NetworkManager must be able to interact with a USB tether like azilink, but I do not know if it is possible currently to do so. I find it particularly annoying because applications which rely on the status of NetworkManager to tell them if they are online or offline (e.g. Evolution) will refuse to go into "online" mode.
This issue seems to possibly be related to: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=531351 Also, I'm having this issue regardless of which method is used to connect (Wireless, Wired or USB tethering). Will add to existing bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=633916 Could it be that nm-applet is simply not receiving or acting on status notifcations?
Looks a lot like bug 726013 or bug 778833.
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