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Hi there!

I decided to make a "bare bones" install of Debian Jessie. After that, I installed the "kde-full" package and rebooted into KDE. Problem is, no connection is shown on the NetworkManager applet. I thought this was a conflict between the "dhclient" and "NetworkManager" modules but clearly I was wrong.

I tried creating a new connection but it doesn't show up on the applet as well. However, I can create a VPN connection (I do need to use it) but I can't connect to it because NetworkManager complains about not finding the source connection.

PICS:

https://i.imgur.com/fMmc7Ke.png

https://i.imgur.com/GsoDkSF.png

https://i.imgur.com/rT8Q3Lt.png

Other useful info:

# lspci -knn|grep -iA2 net

Code:

00:07.0 Bridge [0680]: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 Ethernet [10de:03ef] (rev a2)

        Subsystem: ASRock Incorporation 939NF6G-VSTA Board [1849:03ef]

        Kernel driver in use: forcedeth

# ip l

Code:

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default

    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00

2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000

    link/ether XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

# systemctl --failed

Code:

0 loaded units listed. Pass --all to see loaded but inactive units, too.

To show all installed unit files use 'systemctl list-unit-files'.

# dhclient eth0

Code:

RTNETLINK answers: File exists

Another thing is that I can't set iptables rules. One of the lines read as follows (original line + result displayed on the terminal):

Code:

root@xxxx:~# iptables -A INPUT -i enp0s7  -s xxxx  -j In_RULE_0

iptables v1.4.21: host/network `xxxx' not found

Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information.

Code:

root@xxxx:~# systemctl status NetworkManager

● NetworkManager.service - Network Manager

  Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service; enabled)

  Active: active (running) since Wed 2015-07-15 16:22:14 UTC; 46min ago

 Main PID: 472 (NetworkManager)

  CGroup: /system.slice/NetworkManager.service

          └─472 /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon

BTW, I saw the "--no-daemon" part on that last line above. I tried "systemctl start NetworkManager", "systemctl stop NetworkManager", and "systemctl restart NetworkManager". None have any effect on the icon (the one by my system clock).