What seems to me is like this crash was caused by HAL being successively restarted, and NM's signals firing too slowly for the HAL state (with probably missing sanity checks along the way).
Mar 26 11:58:28 scott-laptop NetworkManager: <info> HAL disappeared Mar 26 11:58:30 scott-laptop NetworkManager: <info> HAL re-appeared Mar 26 11:58:30 scott-laptop NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): now unmanaged Mar 26 11:58:30 scott-laptop NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): device state change: 2 -> 1 Mar 26 11:58:30 scott-laptop NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): cleaning up... Mar 26 11:58:30 scott-laptop NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): taking down device. Mar 26 11:58:30 scott-laptop NetworkManager: <info> Unmanaged Device found; state CONNECTED forced. (see http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/191889) Mar 26 12:02:19 scott-laptop NetworkManager: <info> HAL disappeared Mar 26 12:02:21 scott-laptop NetworkManager: <info> HAL re-appeared Mar 26 12:02:21 scott-laptop NetworkManager: nm_device_get_managed: assertion `NM_IS_DEVICE (device)' failed Mar 26 12:02:24 scott-laptop NetworkManager: <info> HAL disappeared Fixing this however is going to be impractical since there is no longer archive packages for these releases -- closing as Won't Fix for lack of a better idea. ** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu) Status: New => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/349060 Title: MASTER NetworkManager crashes during intrepid->jaunty upgrade Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: Binary package hint: network-manager Crashed during (at the end, just before reboot) of an Kubuntu 8.10 to Jaunty upgrade. ProblemType: Crash Architecture: i386 Disassembly: 0xb7ee8298: DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04 ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/NetworkManager Gconf: IfupdownConfig: auto lo iface lo inet loopback Package: network-manager 0.7.1~rc3.1.git4cf2da146-0ubuntu1 ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined ProcCmdline: /usr/sbin/NetworkManager ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user) Signal: 11 SourcePackage: network-manager StacktraceTop: ?? () ?? () ?? () ?? () ?? () ThreadStacktrace: Title: NetworkManager crashed with SIGSEGV Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686 UserGroups: To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/349060/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
