[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#458151: network-manager: NetworkManager incompatible with GNOME Network Control Panel

[Daniel Dickinson]

Package: network-manager
Severity: important


the Networking control panel of Gnome creates entries in 
/etc/network/interfaces, at least for static entries, and this breaks 
NetworkManager.  Using a default desktop task install and configuring 
the network through the control panel results in an icon that claims 
there is no network and tells applications like Evolution (also part of 
the default desktop task install) that there is no network connection, 
and evolution therefore starting in offline mode.  (As an aside I think 
NetworkManager is borked anyway as it requires X for a network 
connection to be started).

There should probably be a global option in the networking control panel 
that enables/disables network-manager and/or adds/removes (or 
ucomments/comments) non-NetworkManager-compatible settings, or at least 
a warning in the control panel when there are settings that don't play 
well with NetworkManager.

Better yet remove NetworkManager and replace it with a daemon that 
doesn't require X.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-686
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)