From 02989896af5bb73e2a00f3aacdfc730759467458 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Ji=C5=99=C3=AD=20Klime=C5=A1?= <jklimes@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 09:34:39 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] core: return more meaningful error when no device is found
 for activation

Example:
 $ nmcli con add type eth con-name profile ifname nosuch
 $ nmcli con up profile
or
 # ip link set eth0 down
 $ nmcli con add type eth con-name my-eth0 ifname eth0
 $ nmcli con up my-eth0

Related to: 6fc3736c7ac139e40cb9f72b722b95b93c474979
---
 src/nm-manager.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/nm-manager.c b/src/nm-manager.c
index 13decd6d4f..67a2c48420 100644
--- a/src/nm-manager.c
+++ b/src/nm-manager.c
@@ -3035,7 +3035,7 @@ validate_activation_request (NMManager *self,
 			g_set_error_literal (error,
 			                     NM_MANAGER_ERROR,
 			                     NM_MANAGER_ERROR_UNKNOWN_DEVICE,
-			                     "This connection requires an existing device.");
+			                     "No suitable device found for this connection.");
 			goto error;
 		}