From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: NetworkManager instead of Wicd in =?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=98%desktop?= =?utf-8?Q?-services=E2=80=99=3F?= Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 10:26:20 +0200 Message-ID: <87k22p6mhf.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87iniaf06l.fsf@gnu.org> <87bmo1ltus.fsf@netris.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-=-=" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47534) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dc61y-0000O9-K2 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2017 04:26:27 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dc61v-00025T-HK for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2017 04:26:26 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87bmo1ltus.fsf@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Sun, 30 Jul 2017 13:25:47 -0400") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Mark H Weaver Cc: guix-devel --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Mark, Mark H Weaver 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=E2=80=99ve installed GuixSD/GNOME/NM on a laptop that=E2=80=99s = almost always on a wired network and it doesn=E2=80=99t 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 =3D> (nscd-configuration (inherit config) (debug-level 3) (log-file "/var/log/nscd.log")))) >> Now, as someone who doesn=E2=80=99t use GNOME, I wonder if NM would work= well >> for me. Last time I tried it=E2=80=99s CLI was too low-level to be usab= le, and >> I don=E2=80=99t 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=C2=A0MiB to 360, which I think is reasonable: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/x-patch Content-Disposition: inline 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) --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable OK to apply? Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99. --=-=-=--