[Networkmanager] "device is strictly unmanaged"

Wed May 17 12:56:25 UTC 2023

Hello,

finally I got it working. It was some udev problem as you suspected, after reinstallig udev, it works now.
Thanks and sorry for bothering you.

Best regards,
Christian

Am 16.05.23 um 12:54 schrieb Christian Schaubschläger:
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> Am 16.05.23 um 09:43 schrieb Christian Schaubschläger:
>> Sorry for being unprecise.
>> I got this list from calling
>>
>> udevadm monitor -u -k
>>
>> udev version is eudev-3.2.9
>> Apparently there are no udev events, only kernel events.
>>
>> Thanks and best regards,
>> Christian
>>
>>
>> Am 16.05.23 um 09:33 schrieb Andrei Borzenkov:
>>> On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 10:19 AM Christian Schaubschläger
>>> <christian.schaubschlaeger at gmx.at> wrote:
>>>> Good morning,
>>>>
>>>> thanks for your quick response and for the pointer to udev; I'll try to dig in that area...
>>>>
>>>> What I already found is this: on a system where things work fine I see this in the NM log:
>>>>
>>>> May 16 07:38:47 smaug NetworkManager[17979]: <debug> [1684215527.6817] platform-linux: UDEV event: action 'add' subsys 'net' device 'enp0s20f0u6u3u4' (8); seqnum=3479
>>>> May 16 07:38:47 smaug NetworkManager[17979]: <trace> [1684215527.6817] platform-linux: udev-add[enp0s20f0u6u3u4,8]: device added
>>>>
>>>> This reference to the UDEV add action is missing on the system where it doesn't work. However, what I _can_ see on the not-working system is that udev events are generated when I plug the USB dongle:
>>>>
>>>> KERNEL[1049.046495] add      /bus/usb/drivers/r8152 (drivers)
>>>> KERNEL[1049.047226] add      /module/r8152 (module)
>>>> KERNEL[1049.047321] remove   /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:16.0/0000:0b:00.0/usb4/4-1/4-1:2.0 (usb)
>>>> KERNEL[1049.047394] remove   /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:16.0/0000:0b:00.0/usb4/4-1/4-1:2.1 (usb)
>>>> KERNEL[1049.049475] add      /module/usbnet (module)
>>>> KERNEL[1049.056982] add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:16.0/0000:0b:00.0/usb4/4-1/4-1:1.0 (usb)
>>>> KERNEL[1049.177024] add      /bus/usb/drivers/cdc_ether (drivers)
>>>> KERNEL[1049.177715] add      /module/cdc_ether (module)
>>>> KERNEL[1049.179112] add      /bus/usb/drivers/r8153_ecm (drivers)
>>>> KERNEL[1049.179569] add      /module/r8153_ecm (module)
>>>> KERNEL[1049.405946] add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:16.0/0000:0b:00.0/usb4/4-1/4-1:1.0/net/eth1 (net)
>>>> KERNEL[1049.405956] add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:16.0/0000:0b:00.0/usb4/4-1/4-1:1.0/net/eth1/queues/rx-0 (queues)
>>>> KERNEL[1049.405960] add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:16.0/0000:0b:00.0/usb4/4-1/4-1:1.0/net/eth1/queues/tx-0 (queues)
>>>> KERNEL[1049.406102] bind     /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:16.0/0000:0b:00.0/usb4/4-1/4-1:1.0 (usb)
>>>>
>>>> So for some reason these UDEV events are not propagated to NetworkManager...
>>> All shown events are kernel events, not udev events. udev receives
>>> them and should send its own events after processing. You do not say
>>> how you got this list so it is unknown whether you just did not
>>> collect udev events or udev does not generate thesm.
>>>
>>>> I'll try to figure out why.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks and best regards,
>>>> Christian
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Am 15.05.23 um 15:12 schrieb Thomas Haller:
>>>>> On Mon, 2023-05-15 at 14:24 +0200, Christian Schaubschläger wrote:
>>>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm having a strange issue with an USB ethernet device (Realtek
>>>>>> r8152) and NetworkManager (1.42.6, I've also tried older versions
>>>>>> with the same result). I'm not experiencing this on a particular
>>>>>> Linux distribution, but rather on a self-tailored Linux (based on
>>>>>> Linux from Scratch), so it's probably a configuration issue, but
>>>>>> unfortunately I'm really out of ideas what's wrong here.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So the thing is this: when I plug the mentioned USB dongle when the
>>>>>> system is up and running, I cannot use it with NetworkManager,
>>>>>> because eventually I always get the error
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "Failed to activate 'eth1': Connection 'eth1' is not available on
>>>>>> device eth1 because device is strictly unmanaged"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've googled this error a lot but couldn't find anything that makes
>>>>>> things work for me. One interesting thing is, that when I boot the
>>>>>> system with the USB dongle connected, everything works as expected.
>>>>>> Also, when I boot the system with the dongle disconnected, then plug
>>>>>> it, then restart the NM daemon, it works fine, too.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've attached the NetworkManager's logs from a representative
>>>>>> session, where first the NM daemon starts, then I connect the dongle
>>>>>> (eth1), and I then issue a "nmcli d connect eth1" command.
>>>>>> (Note: issuing "nmcli d set eth1 managed yes" prior to connecting
>>>>>> doesn't help...)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Note2: on Ubuntu 22.04 everything works as expected...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Maybe somebody has an idea about what's going wrong here?
>>>>>> Thanks and best regards,
>>>>>> Christian
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>   <debug> [1684158669.6262] platform: (eth1) signal: link   added: 6: eth1 <DOWN;broadcast,multicast> mtu 1500 arp 1 ethernet? not-init addrgenmode
>>>>>
>>>>> "not-init" means that the interface was not announced in udev.
>>>>> NetworkManager expects a signal from udev that the device is usable,
>>>>> which never comes.
>>>>>
>>>>> You certainly would expect a message like that, were it says "init".
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The most common reason is that you run inside a container, where /sys
>>>>> is not mounted as read-only. Udev usually does not run inside a
>>>>> container, and that is communicated by mounting /sys as read-only. See
>>>>> https://systemd.io/CONTAINER_INTERFACE/
>>>>> Note that lxc runs with /sys mounted as writeable, which notably
>>>>> confuses NetworkManager and can cause similar problems.
>>>>>
>>>>> Since you don't run a "normal" linux and not a common container
>>>>> runtime, I would suspect that udev is not properly configured.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thomas
>>>>>
>>>>>