nm-applet no longer automatically connects [SOLVED]

audiodef · Last edited by audiodef on Sun Oct 16, 2016 2:58 pm; edited 1 time in total

Pretty much the subject line. After my last @system @world update, this. It works fine - I can manually connect. It would be nice to have it automatically reconnect to the last network used, as it did before my last update. What should I check for?
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engineermdr · Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 4:32 pm Post subject:

I can confirm the problem is real as I'm having the same issue. I haven't resolved it yet, but added a script run upon resume that runs nmcli to make the connection that works most of the time. I don't have that laptop handy, but can provide the details later if you want.

Sometimes nm-applet won't even show me any available networks either. Seem to just get lost at times but straightens itself out after bringing a connection up with nmcli.

Fitzcarraldo · Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2016 1:46 am Post subject:

Could you be experiencing Gentoo Bug No. 595806 - net-misc/networkmanager-1.4.0-r1[consolekit]: doesn't automatically activate connections marked with "Automatically connect to this network when it's available". Thanks to the efforts of Herbert Wantesh, who filed a bug report upstream, NetworkManager developer Beniamino Galvani provided a patch on 12 October, which you can download and install easily:

engineermdr · Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2016 4:43 pm Post subject:

The patch works for me. Thanks.

And I learned you can add patches in /etc/portage/patches. Up to this point, I've been creating my own ebuilds in a local overlay for patching. This is much simpler.

Fitzcarraldo · Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2016 8:25 pm Post subject:

audiodef · Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2016 2:58 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the replies. They were very helpful.

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engineermdr · Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2016 3:59 pm Post subject:

Now today, after suspending overnight, nm-applet appeared connected, then 30-seconds or so later it bega searching and cam up with an empty list and I had no connection. I had to manually "nmcli connection up myssid". I made sure I had consolekit started before NetworkManager, as the bug described. Maybe I'll try going back to the version that worked.

engineermdr · Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2016 9:19 pm Post subject:

I'm tried, but am still having the same issues with older versions of networkmanager as well. I noticed that the radio light wasn't turning on after resume, and found this thread, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1257368, that suggested this was a kernel problem. So I tried reverting to gentoo-sources-4.1.15 and sure enough, it's working flawlessly through several suspend/resume cycles. I returned to networkmanager-1.4.0 with the patch and still good.

sl70 · Guru Joined: 18 Jun 2002 Posts: 449 Location: Saitama, JP

I'm having the same problem but the patch is gone from Gnome bugzilla. Any other ideas?

Ah, now I see. The bug is marked as Resolved since there were some commits submitted on Oct 13. However, the latest patch in the portage tree is Sept 29. Perhaps I'll try the testing version 1.4.2....

Fitzcarraldo · Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2016 11:06 pm Post subject:

sl70,

The patch is still there: https://bug772640.bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=337514

Save it as /etc/portage/patches/net-misc/networkmanager-1.4.0-r1/0002-session-monitor-fix-parsing-of-ConsoleKit-database.patch
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sl70 · Guru Joined: 18 Jun 2002 Posts: 449 Location: Saitama, JP

Thanks, @Fitscarraldo. I couldn't find it. Anyway version 1.4.2 didn't work any better, so I'm thankful for this.

audiodef · Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 8:14 pm Post subject:

What worked for me was using the allow any user option. No patch needed. I had to delete the auto-found network and manually create it so I could save that option in the settings, but that's not a big deal.
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