Bug 444377 - If Plasma can't be launched or is crashing, plasma-nm won't connect to wifi so you can't go online to debug it
Summary: If Plasma can't be launched or is crashing, plasma-nm won't connect to wifi s...
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Networking in general (show other bugs)
Version: master
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Jan Grulich
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Reported: 2021-10-25 16:51 UTC by Nate Graham
Modified: 2024-12-23 18:23 UTC (History)
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Description Nate Graham 2021-10-25 16:51:03 UTC 
If you happen to end up in a situation where Plasma won't launch or is crash-looping on launch, then plasma-nm will not be able to connect to wifi. As a result, you won't be able to launch a web browser to at least do a web search for fixes or debug info. It's a fairly unpleasant situation.

Maybe plasma-nm could add functionality to its kded module to try to make a connection using the current user's existing config data and credentials when the main UI isn't able to launch.
Comment 1 Ben Cooksley 2024-12-23 18:23:35 UTC 
Bulk transfer as requested in T17796