Bug 147500

Summary:	Knetworkmanager offline mode breaks Kmail ability to receive mail
Product:	[Unmaintained] knetworkmanager	Reporter:	Francesco D'Offizi <francesco.doffizi>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Will Stephenson <wstephenson>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	bluedzins
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Francesco D'Offizi 2007-07-03 17:01:12 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.6)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages
OS:                Linux

I need to use knetworkmanager in offline mode when at work (and manually configure my eth interface using a stored profile in manual configuration) to use network cause of lack of a dhcp server.
I discovered that even if network is up (eth0 configured) if I'm in offline mode kmail stops working, other programs work correctly I can browse with konqueror and so on...
Even re-enabling online mode (and reconfiguring network right way) kmail doesn't work at all. I need to logout and login again to have kmail working.
I think that until network-manager won't support static configuration for network interfaces, knetworkmanager should not disable any of network capabilities of other programs.
I think here we have a bug (cause online activation doesn't enable again network support in some softwares) and a wish to limit functionality of offline mode that now is useless and dangerous.

Comment 1 Maciej Pilichowski 2008-03-05 17:36:43 UTC

Is this the same case as described in this report:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=334358
?

Comment 2 Maciej Pilichowski 2008-03-05 17:38:50 UTC

Since that report is closed as Wontfix, I opened the same report for KDE itself, here:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158809

Comment 3 Will Stephenson 2008-06-15 10:44:56 UTC

There's more info in the other report, so duping to later.  Thank you for reporting this.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 158809 ***