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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Connman refuses to work
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2018 16:26:24
Message-Id: 1c72b42f-477c-b435-6c28-0b8f592e4e08@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Connman refuses to work by Melleus
1 On 07/01/2018 17:45, Melleus wrote:
2 > Melleus <melleus@×××××××××××.org> writes:
3 >
4 >> Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> writes:
5 >>
6 >>> On Sat, 06 Jan 2018 18:46:25 +0200, Melleus wrote:
7 >>>
8 >>>>> What do the logs say?
9 >>>> That's all I could find in syslog:
10 >>>>
11 >>>> connmand[6709]: Aborting (signal 11) [/usr/sbin/connmand]
12 >>>>
13 >>>>> Can you start it manually?
14 >>>>
15 >>>> No, it pretends to start but fails silently.
16 >>>
17 >>> Looking at the man page, try adding --debug=DEBUG and --nodaemon
18 >>
19 >> Thank you for helping me.
20 >>
21 >> --debug=DEBUG is almost silent, but just --debug is more verbose.
22 >>
23 >> All I see is that something wrong is happening here:
24 >>
25 >> connmand[2434]: src/iptables.c:__connman_iptables_append() -t mangle -A connman-INPUT -j CONNMARK --restore-mark
26 >> connmand[2434]: Aborting (signal 11) [connmand]
27 >
28 > Thanks again for pointing me to logs. Those iptables was a
29 > problem. There are the closed bug #573174. Iptables higher than 1.6
30 > breaks connman. The solution is to use iptables lower than 1.6 or
31 > connman higher than 1.32. So the combination of connman v1.29 and
32 > iptables v1.6.1-r2 just cannot work. But unfortunately for me they both
33 > have stable keyword. I beleive that this is a some kind of bug.
34 > After I masked iptables higher than 1.6, reemerged the packages and
35 > reboot, everything works like it should.
36 >
37 > I don't know whether developers are reading this thread, but it would be
38 > very nice to keyword only v1.4.21-r1 of iptables with stable keyword
39 > (like they have done with kernel recently) or promote to stable some
40 > version of connman higher than 1.32 upstream. This would completely
41 > have this bug eliminated even before someone other than me hits it.
42
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44 Post your finding to b.g.o.
45
46 It's a simple matter to limit which versions of iptables can be used
47 with each version of connman. Tracking that, and making changes when
48 they become known, is what being a package maintainer is all about.
49
50
51 --
52 Alan McKinnon
53 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

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