Return-path: Received: from mail-wi0-f169.google.com ([209.85.212.169]:37607 "EHLO mail-wi0-f169.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753735AbbHaRKA (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Aug 2015 13:10:00 -0400 Received: by wicmx12 with SMTP id mx12so5636533wic.0 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 10:09:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <55E48A6A.8050109@gmail.com> (sfid-20150831_191005_801648_FA0F6E7D) Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 19:10:02 +0200 From: Arend van Spriel MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Williams CC: linux-wireless Subject: Re: NetworkManager crashing References: <55DF3E75.1080305@gmail.com> <1441035810.2718.6.camel@redhat.com> <55E489EC.3000209@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <55E489EC.3000209@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 31-08-15 19:07, Arend van Spriel wrote: > > > On 31-08-15 17:43, Dan Williams wrote: >> On Thu, 2015-08-27 at 18:44 +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote: >>> Hi Dan, >>> >>> I ran into issue when NetworkManager keeps crashing/respawning. I have >>> no idea what happened. My laptop was rebooted (might been my sons work) >>> and this was the situation I stumbled upon. Running 4.1 kernel on Linux >>> Mint. NetworkManager version is 0.9.8.8. >> >> Odd, can you get any more log messages out of the machine? Or perhaps a >> backtrace? Looks like it's happening quite early in boot, before >> anything would really get configured... > > Ran NetworkManager manually on the machine. On every run the following > shows up in dmesg > > [19456.972855] traps: NetworkManager[5497] general protection ip:469f8e > sp:7ffeab94c1f0 error:0 in NetworkManager[400000+10c000] > > and in the terminal: > > (NetworkManager:5508): GLib-WARNING **: GError set over the top of a > previous GError or uninitialized memory. > This indicates a bug in someone's code. You must ensure an error is NULL > before it's set. > The overwriting error message was: Key file does not have group > 'connectivity' > > Not sure which key file it is talking about so no idea where to look. Is this about the keyfile plugin that is mentioned in my NetworkManager.conf: [main] plugins=ifupdown,keyfile,ofono dns=dnsmasq [ifupdown] managed=false Regards, Arend