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widesteps
2006-01-23, 03:23 AM CST
FC4 on i686 (Dell Inspiron 510m)

NetworkManager 0.5.1

This morning fired up the laptop in the office as usual and noticed NetworkManager was not connecting; dead as a dodo. :mad:

A little investigation and I noticed that Hal (which NM relies on) was updated by Yum today - I have yum on auto update mode.

Now I suspect the problem is that the new Hal breaks NM 0.5.1. :eek:

I am surprised noone else is reporting this problem, surely I am not the only one with a laptop running FC4 with yum on auto.

What is a man to do? Can I backtrack Hal? How? :confused:
Iron_Mike
2006-01-23, 04:17 AM CST
Both the Ethernet and Wireless work fine with the latest updates on my laptop
giulix
2006-01-23, 04:22 AM CST
On my box hal doesn't start up anymore. Trying to investigate the problem, but I guess I'll wait for FC5. There are a few people reporting problems with hal since last update, though...
widesteps
2006-01-23, 10:25 AM CST
Yep...The Hal on my system is failing to start
glanz
2006-01-23, 10:39 AM CST
Oh Boy... For me the contrary is true. I has updated the kernel and that prevented network management to work. I had to revert to the 2.6.13 kernel temporarily. Then the newer (last) 2.6.14 came out with a HAL update, which restored my network devices.
giulix
2006-01-24, 02:21 AM CST
Shouldn't we let them know ? I switched verbose on, to no avail. I even debugged the thing, but apart from a few scandir errors and a final

09:20:52.904 [E] hald_dbus.c:2526: dbus_bus_get(): No reply within specified time
09:20:52.904 [I] util.c:1157: Killing helper with pid 17549
09:20:52.904 [I] util.c:1157: Killing helper with pid 17540

I couldn't identify the source of the problem. The RPM copies configuration files in /usr/share/hal/fdi, but they seem no different from another box I have that is working perfectly... oh well, I guess I'll wait for FC5 and reinstall the whole thing :(

P.S. I think I'll stick a link (http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=78094) here as there's another thread in hardware on which some people are reporting problems with hal. Maybe it's better to refer to that thread from now on.
giulix
2006-01-24, 02:34 AM CST
P.S. I think I'll stick a link (http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=78094) here as there's another thread in hardware on which some people are reporting problems with hal. Maybe it's better to refer to that thread from now on.