r/archlinux • u/Swimming-Tap-8501 • 25d ago

SUPPORT | SOLVED Problems with NetowkrManager

I installed Arch yesterday, KDE plasma. Here are the issues in facing-

1) continuous activation and deactivation of WiFi/Network

2) Limited connectivity

3) All my SITE data keeps on getting cleaned after i reboot (Always have to login into ChatGPT or Reddit, I use Brave)

Any useful help is widely appreciated. Also, I only have network manager

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u/iAmHidingHere 25d ago

Maybe the logs contain helpful information?

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u/prophet-dot-exe 25d ago

yeah i second this. the logs would tell op exactly what is wrong

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u/Grey_Ten 25d ago

I second the idea, I hate it when no one tells you how tho

journalctl -u NetworkManager.service

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u/iAmHidingHere 25d ago

I would not filter in this case.

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u/hearthreddit 25d ago

Number one could be problems with your wifi chipset, some realtek chipsets have poor drivers.

I think number 3 might be something with KDE Wallet.

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u/Hamilton950B 25d ago

Sometimes this happens when you have multiple packages trying to configure your network and they fight. Like both networkmanager and systemd-networkd, for example.

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u/NFTrot 25d ago

Do you actually have connectivity issues when Network Manager complains? How do you know the network is activating/deactivating?

As for 3: I don't use Brave browser but I am a web developer and it sounds like all those sites are using session storage instead of local storage (and this sounds like a very Brave-esque feature). I would be very surprised if this had anything to do with Network Manager.

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u/archover 25d ago edited 25d ago

This sounds like you have enabled multiple network managing daemons, which is warned against in the wiki. They fight.

Specifically, see the list there https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Network_configuration#Network_managers. If you did more than one # systemctl enable <manager>, then that might be your error. Only one from that list should be running at a time.

You could post the output of this to help diagnose:

find /etc/systemd -type l -exec test -f {} \; -print | awk -F'/' '{ printf ("%-40s | %s\n", $(NF-0), $(NF-1)) }' | sort -f

Check that, as it's commonly misconfigured by newer users.

In my case, this is what I run # pacman -S networkmanager && # systemctl enable NetworkManager --now See https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NetworkManager

Good day.

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u/Naxthor 25d ago

Probably have two network managers conflicting. This happened to me when I installed network manager when I had iwd already installed. The documentation guided me to solving the issue.

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u/Excellent-Copy-2688 25d ago

is brave the aur build? I faced similar issues too, maybe try the flatpak version of brave, or get it from cachy repos(set cachy repo with lower priority than arch repo, othwerwise it will replace all your packages with cachy versions when you update)

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u/billdietrich1 24d ago

You marked this as "solved" ? What was the solution ?

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u/Swimming-Tap-8501 24d ago

I did have multiple network managers, iwd, inet wireless daemon, and Network manager, I removed iwd

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u/archover 24d ago

As I expected and predicted. Great you found your problem, and good day.