Latest F-10 NetworkManager crash issue

[Dan Williams]

On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 22:34 +0100, Denis Leroy wrote:
> Thomas M Steenholdt wrote:
> > Denis Leroy wrote:
> >> As of the latest F-10 NM (0.7.0.99-4.git20090324), the NetworkManager 
> >> daemon systematically crashes upon startup. Going in the debugger, it 
> >> appears NM crashes because of a missing HAL property :
> >>
> >>  > hal-get-property --udi /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer --key 
> >> info.linux.driver
> >> error: libhal_device_get_property_type: 
> >> org.freedesktop.Hal.NoSuchProperty: No property info.linux.driver on 
> >> device with id /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer
> >>
> >>
> >> which causes NM to crash at nm-hal-manager.c:207
> >>
> >> I'm not sure where to file this bug... Any insights ?
> >>
> >> -denis
> >>
> > Already reported as #492246.
> > 
> > Seems to be related to/triggered by vmware (try: service vmware stop && 
> > service NetworkManager restart)
> 
> Gah, unfortunately the karma system rushed it to stable even before I 
> had a chance to test it...

I should probably set NM's autopush karma to 6 or 10 from now on
anyway :)  3 doesn't seem high enough to get a good coverage given the
number of moving parts in the networking system these days.

Dan