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soup2

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Registered: 2011-05-26

Posts: 4

lost gnome network manager (solved)

After an upgrade yesterday my wireless doesn't automatically start, and the network manager icon is missing
I tried to reinstall network-manager-gnome, but it says I need to uninstall network-manager, but network-manager-gnome depends on network-manager, so it can't

Commit Log for Wed Jun 29 21:19:38 2011

Removed the following packages:
network-manager-gnome

Upgraded the following packages:
libnm-glib-vpn1 (0.8.1-6+squeeze1) to 0.8.4.0-2~bpo60+1
libnm-glib2 (0.8.1-6+squeeze1) to 0.8.4.0-2~bpo60+1
libnm-util1 (0.8.1-6+squeeze1) to 0.8.4.0-2~bpo60+1
network-manager (0.8.1-6+squeeze1) to 0.8.4.0-2~bpo60+1

Last edited by soup2 (2011-06-30 22:37:04)

omns

#! wanderer

From: ~/

Registered: 2008-11-25

Posts: 5,131

Re: lost gnome network manager (solved)

What happens if you run the command?

network-manager

anonymous

The Mystery Member

From: Arch Linux Forums

Registered: 2008-11-29

Posts: 9,418

Re: lost gnome network manager (solved)

It seems backports has a newer version of network-manager but not network-manager-gnome.

Use synaptic and try downgrading network-manager to the version from Squeeze (0.8.1-6+squeeze1) then try reinstalling network-manager-gnome.

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soup2

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Registered: 2011-05-26

Posts: 4

Re: lost gnome network manager (solved)

okay that makes sense.  downgraded network-manager and was able to install gnome-network-manager.  everything works now.  my thanks to all

sudo apt-get install network-manager=0.8.1-6+squeeze1
sudo apt-get install network-manager-gnome

Last edited by soup2 (2011-06-30 22:38:35)

yugnip

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From: Upstairs

Registered: 2011-06-24

Posts: 9

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Re: lost gnome network manager (solved)

Unfortunately every time you update you will be asked to download the newer version. In order to keep this from happening,  you might want to untick the backports in your software sources until a newer version of network-manager-gnome appears.

Dave W.

#! CrunchBanger

From: Pennsylvania, USA

Registered: 2010-04-11

Posts: 198

Re: lost gnome network manager (solved)

Same Happened to me.
How does one reinstall if network-manager doesn't work and one can't get onto the internet.  When I plug into my wired system I still can't access the web?  Am I out of luck?
Dave

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Dave W.

#! CrunchBanger

From: Pennsylvania, USA

Registered: 2010-04-11

Posts: 198

Re: lost gnome network manager (solved)

Thank you folks for a very useful post.
I have 2 systems that run #!.  Mine I had to reinstall, I totally borked it before I found this post.  As for my daughter's laptop, this method worked like a charm.

Thank you once again. 

Dave

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fhsm

#! Junkie

From: New Hampshire, USA

Registered: 2009-01-05

Posts: 445

Re: lost gnome network manager (solved)

Any reason that you couldn't just put the package on hold and leave backports enabled?

echo "network-manager hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections 

I had the same problem and this seems to be working for me.