[arch-general] odd problem with NetworkManager and wired

[Mike Cloaked]

On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 12:19 AM, Genes Lists <lists at sapience.com> wrote:

>  Haven't plugged an ethernet cable into my laptop for a while - today I
> did. Wirelss has been working flawlessly.
>
>   Plugging a wire in however refuses to connect - the error in journal is:
>
> .. dhclient[30318]: execve (/usr/lib/networkmanager/nm-dhcp-client.action,
> ...): No such file or directory
>
>  Which is correct. In fact the only script in there with dhcp is
> nm-dhcp-helper. When connected via wifi and checking to see what is running
> this script is used:
>
> ps -eaf | egrep dhcp
> root       605   555  0 18:53 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/dhclient -d -sf
> /usr/lib/networkmanager/nm-dhcp-helper -pf /var/run/dhclient-wlp3s0.pid
> -lf /var/lib/NetworkManager/dhclient-226bfd76-9c49-43fd-8dff-bf6e0809313c-wlp3s0.lease
> -cf /var/lib/NetworkManager/dhclient-wlp3s0.conf wlp3s0
>
>
> So the problem seems to only happen for the wired interface.
>
> I -know- this used to work fine, but unfortunately I have no idea when it
> stopped.
>
> Any suggestions how to get wired working again? I tried on 2 different
> laptops - same problem.
>
> Thanks for any advice.
>
>
Any chance that this is a leftover problem from when the kde nm package (
 kdeplasma-applets-plasma-nm ) was first released?  There were some initial
problems with managing the storage of connection data which were ironed out
but it is possible some users were left with some file crud. Can you delete
your wired connection in the kde nm gui, and start a new one?

-- 
mike c