Ubuntu
network-manager package

network-manager may start before libsystemd-logind

Bug #1400205 reported by Brian Bloniarz
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network-manager (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

When NetworkManager starts, it requests systemd login-monitor notifications through the libsystemd-login sd_login_monitor_new(3) API.

This API will fail if the systemd-logind service has not been started, since it directly accesses directories in /run/systemd. As far as I can tell, systemd-logind in Utopic is started on-demand (through DBUS service activation). So, there's no guarantee that it has been started at the point during boot when NetworkMonitor is started. I attached a patch to upstart .conf file with one way to fix it -- it contacts the DBUS logind API within pre-start to ensure it has been started.

NOTE: you will not see the error in syslog -- NetworkManager logs it to stderr which is /dev/null. If you enable --no-daemon on NetworkManager, the error ("sd_login_monitor_new failed") should get logged to /var/log/upstart/network-manager.log. NOTE: even with this fix, I saw that sd_login_monitor_new failed -- I believe that's a bug in Utopic's systemd (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1400203). I had to patch both to resolve a suspend/resume issue for me.

Seen on:
Ubuntu 14.10
NetworkManager 0.9.8.8-0ubuntu28
libsystemd-login0 208-8ubuntu8

Tags: patch
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Brian Bloniarz (brianbloniarz) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in network-manager (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote :

The attachment "network-manager-logind.patch" seems to be a patch. If it isn't, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and if you are a member of the ~ubuntu-reviewers, unsubscribe the team.

[This is an automated message performed by a Launchpad user owned by ~brian-murray, for any issues please contact him.]

tags: added: patch
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Mark (mark-wege) wrote :

Is there an easy to apply this fix for a normal user, so that I don't have to wait until Ubuntu does this?

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Brian Bloniarz (brianbloniarz) wrote :

Yes - have a look at the network-manager-logind.patch that's attached to this bug. That can be applied directly to /etc/init/network-manager.conf, it just adds a pre-start section to the init script.

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