[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#474029: dbus: Takes down machine's network interface on upgrade

[John Goerzen]

Package: dbus
Version: 1.1.20-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

dbus just got updated on this machine from 1.1.4-1 to 1.1.20-1.  I had
it hooked up to a wired Ethernet connection and was ssh'd into it,
running apt-get update.

Without warning, I saw:

Stopping network connection manager: NetworkManager

At which point the Ethernet interface went down, and never returned.

There was no prompt about whether or not to do this.

This rendered the system inaccessible to the network, in the middle of
the update.

Not cool.

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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages dbus depends on:
pn  adduser                       <none>     (no description available)
ii  debianutils                   2.28.4     Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                         2.7-10     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
pn  libdbus-1-3                   <none>     (no description available)
ii  libexpat1                     1.95.8-4   XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libselinux1                   2.0.59-1   SELinux shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-6      Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

Versions of packages dbus recommends:
pn  dbus-x11                      <none>     (no description available)

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