A proxy setting was disabled yet HTTP_PROXY persists

jimoe666 · November 16, 2019, 7:31am

I ssh’d to the problem host from another host. HTTP_PROXY was unset.

arvidjaar · November 16, 2019, 7:57am

I understand you are on GNOME? Go to Settings - Network, there you find Network Proxy item. If I change it, it does set HTTP_PROXY variable.

jimoe666 · November 16, 2019, 7:54pm

gnome v3.26.2

If it were that simple, I would not have started this thread. The Gnome Settings :: Network page refers the user to the system Proxy settings: “Please use YaST2 to configure your network.” I have done so, repeatedly. And here we are.

arvidjaar · November 16, 2019, 8:16pm

Are you using wicked? What is output of “gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.system.proxy”?

jimoe666 · November 16, 2019, 8:25pm

Yes.
Bingo!

$ gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.system.proxy
org.gnome.system.proxy use-same-proxy false
org.gnome.system.proxy mode 'manual'
org.gnome.system.proxy autoconfig-url ''
org.gnome.system.proxy ignore-hosts 'localhost', '127.0.0.1', '.sma.com']
org.gnome.system.proxy.ftp host 'proxy1.sma.com'
org.gnome.system.proxy.ftp port 3128
org.gnome.system.proxy.socks host 'proxy1.sma.com'
org.gnome.system.proxy.socks port 3128
org.gnome.system.proxy.http host 'proxy1.sma.com'
org.gnome.system.proxy.http port 3128
org.gnome.system.proxy.http use-authentication false
org.gnome.system.proxy.http authentication-password ''
org.gnome.system.proxy.http authentication-user ''
org.gnome.system.proxy.http enabled true
org.gnome.system.proxy.https host 'proxy1.sma.com'
org.gnome.system.proxy.https port 3128

How do I change those?

arvidjaar · November 16, 2019, 8:35pm

gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy mode none

jimoe666 · November 16, 2019, 10:48pm

Thank you!
That cleared the value given to HTTP_PROXY. Google-Chrome is much happier now.

This leaves the questions:

How did it get set originally?
Why was it not changed when the system values were changed?

jimoe666 · November 16, 2019, 10:58pm

I decided to move this to a new thread:
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/538230-Mounting-SMB-is-now-sporadic

arvidjaar · November 17, 2019, 7:10am

How should we know? You may have been using NetworkManager in the past and configured it, then switched to wicked.

Why was it not changed when the system values were changed?
Because it is not system, but per-user setting, moreover it is setting of specific DE.

The actual bug here is that changing proxy is not possible after switch to wicked even though the last configured value still takes effect. Care to open bug report?