Re: NetworkManager instead of Wicd in ‘%desktop-services’?

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:

> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:
>>
>>> I've been using Network Manager with GNOME for several months at least,
>>> and generally I find it works very well, and reconnects much more
>>> quickly than wicd.
>>
>> Good.
>>
>>> However, there is one annoying bug: every time I reboot the system, the
>>> first 1-3 times it connects to the network, name lookups do not work.  I
>>> always have to manually ask Network Manager to disconnect, and then
>>> reconnect.  Sometimes I have to do this two or three times before name
>>> lookups work.  After I've done this, it works perfectly until the next
>>> reboot.
>>>
>>> I looked into this a bit, but haven't yet found the cause.  When name
>>> lookups are failing, /etc/resolv.conf exists and is correctly
>>> configured.  I've tried restarting 'nscd', but it doesn't help.
>>
>> Weird.  (I’ve installed GuixSD/GNOME/NM on a laptop that’s almost always
>> on a wired network and it doesn’t have this problem AFAIK.)
>>
>> Could you enable nscd debugging output, so we can at least see whether
>> the problem is due to nscd caching name lookup failures?  Something
>> like:
>>
>>        (modify-services %desktop-services
>>          (nscd-service-type config
>>                             => (nscd-configuration
>>                                 (inherit config)
>>                                 (debug-level 3)
>>                                 (log-file "/var/log/nscd.log"))))
>
> Okay, I'll try that soon.
>
>>>> Now, as someone who doesn’t use GNOME, I wonder if NM would work well
>>>> for me.  Last time I tried it’s CLI was too low-level to be usable, and
>>>> I don’t remember seeing a curses interface.  Suggestions?
>>>
>>> There is a curses interface included with Network Manager.  It's called
>>> 'nmtui'.  It's not getting built because it depends on 'newt', which is
>>> not an input to our Network Manager package.
>>
>> Nice.  The attached patch adds this dependency, changing the closure
>> size from 356 MiB to 360, which I think is reasonable:
>>
>> diff --git a/gnu/packages/gnome.scm b/gnu/packages/gnome.scm
>> index 931c50e9d..d9d3fe793 100644
>> --- a/gnu/packages/gnome.scm
>> +++ b/gnu/packages/gnome.scm
>> @@ -109,6 +109,7 @@
>>    #:use-module (gnu packages rdesktop)
>>    #:use-module (gnu packages scanner)
>>    #:use-module (gnu packages selinux)
>> +  #:use-module (gnu packages slang)
>>    #:use-module (gnu packages ssh)
>>    #:use-module (gnu packages xml)
>>    #:use-module (gnu packages gl)
>> @@ -4967,6 +4968,7 @@ users.")
>>         ("libnl" ,libnl)
>>         ("libsoup" ,libsoup)
>>         ("modem-manager" ,modem-manager)
>> +       ("newt" ,newt)                       ;for the 'nmtui' console interface
>>         ("polkit" ,polkit)
>>         ("ppp" ,ppp)
>>         ("readline" ,readline)
>>
>>
>> OK to apply?
>
> Looks good to me!

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