27 Apr
2024
27 Apr
'24
7:33 p.m.
On Saturday 27 April 2024 11:27:02 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users wrote:
Anno domini 2024 Sat, 27 Apr 10:44:36 -0700
For what it's worth: today I purged
network-manager and replaced it by
connman + cmst. My networkmanager-related problems (not finding networks,
not connecting ...) are gon now. That is, I still have dropping connections
etc. but now I can detect if I got an incomplet network configuration and
restart the connection if needed - and that takes seconds, not tenths of
minutes.
As for the "w"-zombie: it might be a corrupt library. You can try this to
check if the checksums match:
dpkg -l | awk {'print $2'} | xargs | debsums | grep -v 'OK'
... but as you live in the land-of-the-free™ I'd also run a check for a
rootkit, just in case you had a visitor ...
Nik
Well, I thought I would give those packages a try, so I installed connman,
cmst and a dependency, ofono. I like the look of it, and it does seem to be
useful as a backup plan, if my connection is giving me problems, and I want
to do some testing and troubleshooting, trying to find out the source of the
problem.
In this case, however, as soon as I installed these packages, I could neither
send nor receive emails. No other internet programs seem to have been
affected, so far as I can tell, though I did not search too far. My browser
still works the same, my internet radio kept working throughout, except when
I restarted the connection. So it appears that these packages at least have
some conflict. I did not uninstall tdenetworkmanager, but I don't think that
I am using the gnome networkmanager itself, unless it's hiding somewhere in
the background. When I do a fresh system installation, I am used to seeing
both the gnome networkmanager and tdenetworkmanager both in the systray.
After I finish the setup of my system (which usually involves getting rid of
unnecessary programs, especially KDE Plasma or Gnome packages, if they
somehow creep in.
I tried restarting the connection, etc.: I did not go so far as to reboot, as
I have a few other things to do before the sun goes down.
Then I purged these packages, and again, email is back and functioning
normally. So I may hang onto this connman and its helpers, just for backup,
but for now I think I'll just stick with the tdenetworkmanager.
I will try out some of those other suggestions later today, after I spend a
few hours outdoors.
Bill