[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#428669: Bug#428669: dbus upgrade stops network-manager, drops network for the duration

[Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 02:53:22PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> NetworkManager has to be restarted during dbus upgrades, because being a D-Bus
> application, it won't survive if the system bus is killed.

Sounds like here is the place where any fixes should go.  NM should be able to
survive dbus shutting down.

> As NM is mainly conceived for the laptop/desktop case anyway, where you are
> physically connected to the machine, I don't see a big problem, when the network
> is deconfigured for a short time during upgrades.

The time is not that short when upgrading between stable releases.

Besides, I routinely upgrade my desktops by ssh, and I don't expect to be the
only one doing so.  One notable case is my mother's box that I administer
remotely.

-- 
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Jyväskylä
http://antti-juhani.kaijanaho.fi/newblog/
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