[Dnsmasq-discuss] NM - dnsmasq, shared conn. no IP to client

[Geert Stappers]

On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 08:25:33PM +0200, Kemal Kilic wrote:
> Hello Folks,
> 
> I have 64 bit openSUSE Tumbleweed.
> Just a week ago my shared wifi and ethernet connections were working with
> NetworkManager
> 
> I do not know what happened but now I got such messages and the client can
> not get IP address
> Why dnsmasq can not create that lease file in /var/lib/NetworkManager?
> How can I get over this problem?


Start with explaining why NetworkManager (usualy on "clients" )
should start dnsmasq (usualy on "servers" )




> Thanks for your time.

In http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html is documented
that I could/should have spend my time elsewhere.


> Here is the NetworkManager log:
> 
> systemctl status NetworkManager
> ??? NetworkManager.service - Network Manager
>   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service; enabled;
> vendor preset: disabled)
>  Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service.d
>           ??????NetworkManager-ovs.conf
>   Active: active (running)
>     Docs: man:NetworkManager(8)
> Main PID: 1319 (NetworkManager)
>    Tasks: 4 (limit: 4915)
>   CGroup: /system.slice/NetworkManager.service
>           ??????1319 /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon
>           ??????1704 /sbin/dhclient -d -q -sf /usr/lib/nm-dhcp-helper -pf /var/run/dhclient-enp5s0.pid -lf
> /var/lib/NetworkManager/dhclient-5aa08187-8d97-4502-836f-6f26683d034e-enp5s0.lease
> -cf /var/lib/N>
> 
> Nov 05 20:13:51 michael NetworkManager[1319]: <info>  [1541441631.6756] Executing: /usr/sbin/iptables --table nat --insert POSTROUTING --source 10.42.0.0/255.255.255.0 ! --destination 10.42.0.0/255.255>
> Nov 05 20:13:51 michael NetworkManager[1319]: <info>  [1541441631.6767] dnsmasq-manager: starting dnsmasq...
> Nov 05 20:13:51 michael NetworkManager[1319]: <info>  [1541441631.6778] device (wlp2s0f0u10): state change: ip-config -> ip-check (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed')
> Nov 05 20:13:51 michael NetworkManager[1319]: <info>  [1541441631.6788] device (wlp2s0f0u10): state change: ip-check -> secondaries (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed')
> Nov 05 20:13:51 michael NetworkManager[1319]: <info>  [1541441631.6790] device (wlp2s0f0u10): state change: secondaries -> activated (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed')
> Nov 05 20:13:51 michael NetworkManager[1319]: dnsmasq: cannot open or create lease file /var/lib/NetworkManager/dnsmasq-wlp2s0f0u10.leases: Permission denied
> Nov 05 20:13:51 michael dnsmasq[692]: cannot open or create lease file /var/lib/NetworkManager/dnsmasq-wlp2s0f0u10.leases: Permission denied
> Nov 05 20:13:51 michael dnsmasq[692]: FAILED to start up
> Nov 05 20:13:51 michael NetworkManager[1319]: <info>  [1541441631.6902] device (wlp2s0f0u10): Activation: successful, device activated.
> Nov 05 20:13:51 michael NetworkManager[1319]: <warn>  [1541441631.6907] dnsmasq-manager: dnsmasq exited with error: Filesystem problem (missing file/directory, permissions) (3)
> 
> 



Groeten
Geert Stappers
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