Bug 902496

Summary: Network Manager present in system tray but not functional
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE Distribution Reporter: Forgotten User xVWkOds7nr <forgotten_xVWkOds7nr>
Component: BasesystemAssignee: E-mail List <bnc-team-screening>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Minor    
Priority: P5 - None CC: bwiedemann, dimstar, pwieczorkiewicz, wicked-maintainers
Version: 13.2 RC 1   
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Hardware: x86-64   
OS: openSUSE 13.2   
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Description Forgotten User xVWkOds7nr 2014-10-24 08:44:29 UTC 
I just installed OS13.2 RC1 in a virtualbox.

The network-manager icon is visible in the System tray with a red x next to it. When I hover over the icon it says "NetworkManager not running". When I click on the icon I see that no connection is configured.

But I am connected to the LAN and ifconfig reports:

enp0s3    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 08:00:27:94:95:0D  
          inet addr:10.0.2.15  Bcast:10.0.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::a00:27ff:fe94:950d/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:498 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:493 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:147902 (144.4 Kb)  TX bytes:51504 (50.2 Kb)

If I go in YaST2 > Services Manager I see that NetworkManager is disabled/inactive. The attempt to enable/activate seems to fail with:

Could not enable NetworkManager: NetworkManager.service - Network Manager 
loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service: enabled) 
Active: inactive (dead)

However after a reboot Network Manager is active and working as expected. 

This situation is confusing. Either the Network Manager service is not meant to be used and the Network Manager icon should be removed from the System Tray by default or the Network Manager service should be enabled by default.
Comment 1 Bernhard Wiedemann 2014-10-25 05:24:34 UTC 
If this is with KDE, it is bug 901008. 
Then please mark it as RESOLVED DUPLICATE.
Comment 2 Pawel Wieczorkiewicz 2014-10-25 12:48:34 UTC 
(In reply to Bernhard Wiedemann from comment #1)
> If this is with KDE, it is bug 901008. 
> Then please mark it as RESOLVED DUPLICATE.

If think it is about this thing nm-applet which is indeed running:
$ ps ax|grep nm-applet
 2316 ?        Sl     0:00 nm-applet

$ cnf nm-applet
                         
Program 'nm-applet' is present in package 'NetworkManager-gnome', which is installed on your system.
Comment 3 Forgotten User xVWkOds7nr 2014-10-25 13:40:03 UTC 
Yes, it is with KDE and bug 901008 is the same.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 901008 ***