Knetworkmanager crashes

[darkbobby]

As the title says I keep having knetworkmanager crash on bootup and whenever I try to start it manually it does the same thing. Gives a segment fault.

Output from command line:

 evilnone@evilnone-linux:~$ knetworkmanager

knetworkmanager(1781)/kdecore (KLibrary) kde4Factory: The library "/usr/lib/kde4/solid_networkmanager07.so" 
does not offer a qt_plugin_instance function.

Connecting to deprecated signal 
QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)

KCrash: Application 'knetworkmanager' crashing...

sock_file=/home/evilnone/.kde/socket-evilnone-linux/kdeinit4__0
knetworkmanager(1780): Communication problem with "knetworkmanager" , it probably crashed.
 
Error message was: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown" : " "The name org.kde.knetworkmanager was not provided by any .service files" "

The only thing that has changed is I installed some debug tools for amarok when prompted as it kept crashing while loading my library. I had to boot into windows to post this, is there anything I can do to fix this?

[Teunis]

Re: Knetworkmanager crashes

A quick fix could be to install wicd.
It's not the same as fixing your problem but it should give you a reliable connection.

[darkbobby]

Re: Knetworkmanager crashes

forgive my ignorance, how can I install without an internet connection?

[Teunis]

Re: Knetworkmanager crashes

You can download the deb with the same computer used to access this site.
Or use a live CD.
http://packages.ubuntu.com/nl/jaunty/all/wicd/download
Then install it using Gdebi.

[GreyGeek]

Re: Knetworkmanager crashes

It used to be that when you installed wicd the process automatically removed knetworkmanager. I've heard reports that it no longer does. So, you might want to remove
knm-runtime
network-manager
network-manager-kde
network-manager-gnome
network-manager-openvpn
network-manager-pptp
network-manager-vpnc



Without a network connection just installing wicd won't pull in the other dependencies.

So install:
wicd
wicd-daemon
wicd-gtk
python-notify
python-wicd


You may also want to install
python-urwid (0.9.9.1-1)
wicd-curses (1.7.0-2)

which will give you the ability to configure the network connection from a Konsole or console.

[hunkirdowne]

Re: Knetworkmanager crashes

I'm not exactly sure why, but I lost the ability to connect to the network after upgrading to beta2 on this laptop (Dell Latitude C-610; I've upgraded my other laptop but have not yet tested it). Anyway, here's what I did to get back online. It's not elegant but it works.

I added the following two lines to /etc/network/interfaces:
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

Then I saved and issued the following from the command line:

/etc/init.d/networking restart