All of a sudden the Knetworkmanager icon disappeared from my panel and when I try to start it from a console I get the following output.
ion@linux-4cfs:~> knetworkmanager
terminate called after throwing an instance of ‘std::bad_alloc’
what(): std::bad_alloc
KCrash: Application ‘knetworkmanager’ crashing…
sock_file=/home/ion/.kde4/socket-linux-4cfs/kdeinit4__0
knetworkmanager(6762): Communication problem with “knetworkmanager” , it probably crashed.
Error message was: “org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown” : " “The name org.kde.knetworkmanager was not provided by any .service files” "
The only change I can associate with it is an online update last night.
Created new user. Panel icon appears and reports “Networking information not available”. When clicked box appears with faded “Network Management disabled”
Started from console…
guest@linux-4cfs:~> knetworkmanager
Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
This is very strange. When I went into Yast it told me that ifup was running. I have never run ifup to my knowledge. When I tried to activate Network Manager, it told me there was no network running. I am on vacation with my netbook with an installation from the 11.3 live CD. Please don’t waste your time on this. As long as I can connect with ifup I will wait till I get home and do a clean install. I hate this notebook anyway and have had repeated problems since I switched from 10.3 to 11.3.
I just tried to reboot. It wouldn’t. I booted from a USB stick and ran fsck. Tons of errors. I think the SSD is trashed. This is particularly annoying because I have put no more than six weeks of use on this netbook since I bought it for travel only. This is the second ASUS product I have had problems with. The first one, a desktop, had the motherboard replaced under warranty (what a joke!) four times before I threw it out.
