Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> skribis: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> 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’ve installed GuixSD/GNOME/NM on a laptop that’s almost always >> on a wired network and it doesn’t 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 >> => (nscd-configuration >> (inherit config) >> (debug-level 3) >> (log-file "/var/log/nscd.log")))) > > Okay, I'll try that soon. > >>>> Now, as someone who doesn’t use GNOME, I wonder if NM would work well >>>> for me. Last time I tried it’s CLI was too low-level to be usable, and >>>> I don’t 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 MiB to 360, which I think is reasonable: >> >> 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) >> >> >> OK to apply? > > Looks good to me!
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