Subject: bug#525: network-manager: during upgrade network-manager does not start

From: Mark Hindley <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 17:18:20 +0000

Control: tags -1 moreinfo unreproducible

Dimitris,

On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 01:51:52PM +0200, Dimitris T. wrote:
> Package: network-manager
> Version: 1.27.91-2+devuan1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hey,
> 
> (noticed it in previous upgrades too -neglected to report-, but latest upgrade yesterday reminded me to...)
> 
> after upgrading network-manager, daemon is not started, even though status
> reports it as "running". :

Thanks for this. However, I can't reproduce the behaviour you observe.

Here is my attempt in a VM which seems correct:

$ sudo service network-manager status
NetworkManager is running.
$ pidof NetworkManager
4025
$ sudo apt install --reinstall network-manager
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... 50%
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 3,449 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1ohttp://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged unstable/main amd64 network-manager amd64 1.27.91-2+devuan1 [3,449 kB]
Preparing to unpack .../network-manager_1.27.91-2+devuan1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking network-manager (1.27.91-2+devuan1) over (1.27.91-2+devuan1) ...
Setting up network-manager (1.27.91-2+devuan1) ...
Stopping network connection manager: NetworkManager.
Starting network connection manager: NetworkManager.
Processing triggers for dbus (1.12.20-1+devuan1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.3-2) ...

$ sudo service network-manager status
NetworkManager is running
$ pidof NetworkManager
4327

So what is different about your system? Is there anything in syslog whilst the
reinstall happens that might give a clue?

Thanks

Mark