[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#432322: network-manager: package upgrade kills network connections every time

[Jon Dowland]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.6.4-8+b1
Severity: important

I have network-manager installed on a (currently) headless
box. That might seem like madness, but I just did a default
desktop install and later repurposed the machine as a sid
server.

The last two times that the network-manager package has
been upgraded, the process of doing so has killed my active
network connections, including the ssh session with the
controlling tty for the aptitude upgrade process:

    Preparing to replace libdaemon0 0.10-1 (using .../libdaemon0_0.11-0.2_i386.deb) ...
    Unpacking replacement libdaemon0 ...  Preparing to replace dbus-x11 1.1.1-1 (using .../dbus-x11_1.1.1-3_i386.deb) ...
    Unpacking replacement dbus-x11 ...
    Preparing to replace dbus 1.1.1-1 (using .../archives/dbus_1.1.1-3_i386.deb) ...
    Stopping network connection manager:
    NetworkManagerDisconnecting: Timeout, server not responding.

Please try and avoid this happening.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                     3.103        Add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                        1.1.1-3      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  dhcdbd                      2.8-1        D-Bus interface to the ISC DHCP cl
ii  hal                         0.5.9.1-2    Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  ifupdown                    0.6.8        high level tools to configure netw
ii  iproute                     20070313-1   Professional tools to control the 
ii  iputils-arping              3:20070202-1 Tool to send ICMP echo requests to
ii  libc6                       2.5-11       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                 1.1.1-3      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2            0.74-1       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11                 1.2.4-2      LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.12.12-1    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgpg-error0               1.4-2        library for common error values an
ii  libhal1                     0.5.9.1-2    Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libiw29                     29~pre22-1   Wireless tools - library
ii  libnl1-pre6                 1.0~pre6-5   Library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-util0                 0.6.4-8+b1   network management framework (shar
ii  lsb-base                    3.1-23.1     Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  wpasupplicant               0.6.0-2      Client support for WPA and WPA2 (I

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  network-manager-gnome         0.6.4-8+b1 network management framework (GNOM

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