#1150221 auto-apt-proxy: Always waits 30 seconds to be online but nm-online returns immediately

Package:
auto-apt-proxy
Source:
auto-apt-proxy
Submitter:
Jérémy Lal
Date:
2026-10-12 09:23:05 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1150221#5
Date:
2026-10-07 09:08:27 UTC
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Hi,

for several weeks now, whenever auto-apt-proxy is used by apt,
it seemingly hangs on nm-online for 30 seconds.

Calling nm-online directly as root returns immediately with success.

Setting AUTO_APT_PROXY_NO_WAIT_ONLINE=1 works around the issue.
#1150221#10
Date:
2026-10-12 06:55:03 UTC
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Same problem when called from packagekitd:

oct. 12 08:42:15 lal PackageKit[5050]: refresh-cache transaction /313366_ceeeebdc from uid 1000 finished with success after 65419ms
oct. 12 08:42:17 lal dbus-daemon[1526]: [system] Rejected send message, 4 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.167" (uid=140 pid=7222 comm="nm-online -q --timeout 30" label="unconfined") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.ObjectManager" member="GetManagedObjects" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.15" (uid=0 pid=1650 comm="/usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon" label="unconfined")
oct. 12 08:42:47 lal packagekitd[7219]: E: Le sous-processus nm-online a renvoyé un code d'erreur (1)
#1150221#21
Date:
2026-10-12 07:32:28 UTC
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Further info:

dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' network-manager
 /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf 914f22205f2ed4d4bc84f3682ecd3153
 /etc/dbus-1/system.d/NetworkManager.conf 89375becd43963c9203c92820c86a35a obsolete

Also, this file has never been changed since I installed etckeeper in year 2020.
#1150221#26
Date:
2026-10-12 08:49:15 UTC
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Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
This file has been moved to
/usr/share/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.conf in


https://salsa.debian.org/utopia-team/network-manager/-/commit/677cd79028d990e76cd3b9505c4a4b59b934dbf6

and maintscript code to remove the obsolete conffile on upgrades

https://salsa.debian.org/utopia-team/network-manager/-/commit/179df1a8ab7df0663d8178883373c31b59cfbf06

This was in 2018. The maintscript code was removed again 3 years later in

https://salsa.debian.org/utopia-team/network-manager/-/commit/cf3cea148037f9c5ce930a6d44a48be0413427cb

So, my only guess is, that you skipped a release when upgrading and
never actually ran the upgrade code.
#1150221#33
Date:
2026-10-12 08:55:09 UTC
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Le lun. 12 oct. 2026 à 10:49, Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> a écrit :

The path in those commits is
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.conf

however, the file that stayed behind is
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/NetworkManager.conf
#1150221#38
Date:
2026-10-12 09:13:00 UTC
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Am 12.10.26 um 10:55 schrieb Jérémy Lal:

The file was renamed in 2012 (with proper maintscript code to handle the
rename):
https://salsa.debian.org/utopia-team/network-manager/-/commit/9837a334f37b06e20f83963852618711c80b4250
#1150221#43
Date:
2026-10-12 09:19:41 UTC
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Le lun. 12 oct. 2026 à 11:13, Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> a écrit :


Interesting ! I bought that computer in 2012 (and it's still my main PC).
This bug report cannot be any more useful, then.
Thank you for the clarifications.

Jérémy