recent network breakage on f12?

[Wolfgang S. Rupprecht]

Natxo Asenjo <natxo.asenjo at gmail.com> writes:
>> It appears to connect, then a few seconds later it gets pulled down again.
>>
>> How do I get my machine back to the state it was pre Saturday's updates?
>
> there is a networkmanager bug (I do not have the id handy, sorry). My
> mobile broadband connection also stopped working after the upgrade.
> This solved it:
>
> yum downgrade NetworkManager
> yum downgrade NetworkManager-gnome
> yum downgrade NetworkManager-gnome NetworkManager
> yum downgrade NetworkManager-gnome NetworkManager NetworkManager-glib

Thanks.  I didn't notice that yum had a downgrade command.  That makes
it easier to dig up the previous version.  Neat!

> Apparently there is a fix in the testing repository, but I am now
> avoiding any updates, I have stuff to do :)

I just added this to /etc/yum.conf, so I could update other unrelated
things:

exclude=*NetworkManager*0.8.0-6.git20100408.fc12

(I wasn't sure where the "1:" from the full rpm name of
"1:NetworkManager-0.7.996-6.git20091021.fc12.x86_64" was supposed to
show up.  Some commands have it show up with the version number, others
prepened to the package name.  I just slapped in an extra * to cover all
bases.)

-wolfgang
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Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
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