#932728 gnome-maps in Buster can't find Internet

Package:
gnome-maps
Source:
gnome-maps
Description:
map application for GNOME
Submitter:
rlwbonsai
Date:
2026-08-07 08:25:03 UTC
Severity:
important
#932728#5
Date:
2019-07-22 12:12:59 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

Upgraded from 9.9 to 10 and gnome-maps won't load, reporting failure to find
the Internet.  The Internet is running as wired connection eth2 and is found
without issue by browsers, sylpheed and package management tools.  The Internet
configuration is unchanged from 9.9 to 10.0.  Tried to find a configuration
file without success.

   * What led up to the situation?
   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

#932728#10
Date:
2019-07-29 18:11:55 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

I had the exact same problem and this seems to be related to the
network-manager package. I simply uninstalled the network-manager and
network-manager-gnome packages and gnome-maps is working just fine since
then.

I have a permanent wired Internet connection on my sole network interface
(enp4s0). After Buster installation, the network-manager icon in the tray
show that the "wired connection was unsupported". Everything worked fine
however, from the distribution package manager to the browser. Only
gnome-maps could not connect to the network.

I don't know if uninstalling network-manager is an option for laptop users
who want to deal with their wireless network interfaces, though.

#932728#15
Date:
2019-11-09 12:30:46 UTC
From:
To:
Maps reports it is offline when invoked. I suspect this is a bad
dependency in gnome-maps which assumes that gnome is managing internet
connections. I have always preferred to use the old, reliable Debian
/etc/network/* method. So, I am NOT offline, but Maps things I AM, and
therefore needs to be fixed before I can use it.

#932728#20
Date:
2026-08-07 08:14:50 UTC
From:
To:
Hello,

in the newest version of gnome-maps, it doesn't appear to be present. I
have a wired connection
and everything works fine.

If you still have problems with this issue, please open another bug
report with newer version of gnome-maps, please.

Thanks,
Dawid Kulas