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Network Manager client fetches the basic information from Network Manager, caches it and updates the cache whenever it receives the signal. So, create only a single instance of it and reuse it. Reusing from different threads is apparently fine because the underlying DBusConnection is a singleton[1] that is meant to be used from multiple threads. The glib main loop context that is related to the client must run even after the network manager client object goes away[2]. So, create the network manager client instance from a thread that continues to run the glib main thread. This fixes an infrequent crash when accessing network manager page. The problem was reproducible from very early version of Network Manager and FreedomBox. However, in more recent versions of NetworkManager 1.20 with recent DBus changes in FreedomBox, the problem is more prominent. The problem reduces to a simple warning in NetworkManager 1.22. Closes: #1724 Closes: #382 Tests: - Reproduce the problem by accessing the networks app index page repeatedly. - Create a simple test case file to reproduce the problem and ensure that the fix works there. - On Network Manager 1.20 repeatedly access the networks app index page and create/delete/activate/deactivate/show connections. - On Network Manager 1.22 repeatedly access the networks app index page and create/delete/activate/deactivate/show connections. Links: 1) https://developer.gnome.org/gio/unstable/GDBusConnection.html#g-bus-get-sync 2) https://developer.gnome.org/libnm/stable/NMClient.html#nm-client-get-main-context Signed-off-by: Sunil Mohan Adapa <sunil@medhas.org> Reviewed-by: James Valleroy <jvalleroy@mailbox.org>