NetworkManager failing

[linedpaper]

I updated my kernel and now network manager will no longer start. Upon boot it appears there is a persmission denied in regards to some libraries, I didn't catch it, /var/log doesn't appear to have anything on this service. In gnome when I try to start the service manually (using the services gui) it says "NetworkManager failed. The error was: Setting network parameters...Starting NetworkManager daemon: [Failed]. I am now running kernel 2.6.14-1.1653.

Thanks,
Tim

A few updates...It still works under the older kernel which is the first fc4 kernel 2.6.11 something. I do remember this happening sometime before and don't think I ever figured it out. It is some library that denies permission and therefore NetworkManager fails to start. Thanks for the help.

Tim

[linedpaper]

Is there another log I can post that would help out more? It is working still on my old kernel. I think I read something about needing to reinstall the ipw2200 drivers when you do a kernel upgrade. I never installed any extra drivers, only the firmware to get it to work initially. I used the one in apt. I tried to do a complete removal of the firmware and then reinstalled it and that still didn't help. I don't think this would be related to that though as it is the NetworkManager service failing and that isn't dependent on a wireless connection.

Thanks,
Tim

[linedpaper]

Ok one more update...Someone at work installed fc4 on their laptop, same wireless, different laptop, updated and networkmanager worked fine on the same new kernel I am trying to use, which makes me think that there is something else I need to do when upgrading the kernel. I'm sure someone else has had this problem...please help!!!

[jim]

have you tried to remove NM and reinstall it?

[linedpaper]

Yes, sorry forgot to mention that. I tried to uninstall/reinstall networkmanager already via apt. It uninstalled/reinstalled fine, but still won't work.

[Iron_Mike]

You won't need to install the ipw2200 drivers unless you are running wpa or some other encryption other than wep. Are both the NM services started, NetworkManager and NetworkManagerDispatcher??? Are they both enabled for runlevel 3 and 5???

[linedpaper]

They are both installed and set to start at respective runlevels, but NetworkManager fails to start. It gets a permission denied pertaining to some libraries, not sure which logs to look at to find out which ones. It doesn't show anything in /var/log

[Iron_Mike]

Just to check, is it the same when you are logged on as root??????

[linedpaper]

Yeah, it's the same.

[linedpaper]

Ok a NetworkManager question, I notice that even after doing a complete removal of NetworkManager and reinstalling it, my config settings are still there. Where are they stored and how can I delete them all?

[jim]

they are in the gconfiguration editor registry

Applications-->system tools-->gconfiguration editor
browseto the following...
/apps/network/ and there is another option there just not infrom of my pc now (at work)
you will see the wireless networks i think
and the different wireless networks you have saved

[linedpaper]

That setting doesn't exist on mine. I'm starting to think nobod has any idea and that I should just wipe my system. I'm just worred that something like this will happen again when I try to upgrade my kernel.

[jim]

Do you have a network option?

[linedpaper]

No, there isn't one there at all.

[jim]

try /system/networks/wireless/

[linedpaper]

I looked all over and believe I checked in system also and don't remember seeing a networks config. I am at work though and I will double check when I get home tonight.

[linedpaper]

I didn't find any of the listing mentioned. Instead I reinstalled fc4 as it was a fresh install anyways. This time I did not install apt and only used yum, I've been having problems with apt and decided it's finally time to switch over. Everything seemed to work fine this time, is it possible that apt or some of it's dependencies conflict with NetworkManager? I used the kickstart from atrpms.net. I couldn't try NM with just an uninstall of apt as it uninstalled a ton of other things when I removed apt, that pretty much left my system useless.

[blinksilver]

I would really like some help with this. I have spent a great deal of time setting up fedora and really don't want to reinstall the entire OS. I am not using apt, I am using Smart as my package manager. Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this?

[linedpaper]

It's been working fine for me using yum as my package manager.

[alongwor]

Hi all,

Did anyone every figure anything more out on this?
I have exactly the same problem. The NetworkManager deamon fails to start. On boot it fails with a message like (but possibly not exactly)

libgcrypt.so.11: cannot enable executable stack as shared object requires: Permission denied

NetworkManager and associated packaged were intalled using yum.

Any ideas?

Edited to change the type. libgcrypt.so.11 rather than libcrypt.so.11

[commander129]

Hi all,

Did anyone every figure anything more out on this?
I have exactly the same problem. The NetworkManager deamon fails to start. On boot it fails with a message like (but possibly not exactly)



NetworkManager and associated packaged were intalled using yum.

Any ideas?

Edited to change the type. libgcrypt.so.11 rather than libcrypt.so.11

I have the same error message. Maybye its because of the newest kernel 2.15 ?