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

[Jarek Kamiński]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 07:43:17PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:

I've just found this bug fixed and read its log.

> Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 05:59:23PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>>> How is NM supposed to know if dbus is started again? Should it poll forever in a
>>> while loop checking for a dbus connection?
>> 
>> I rather think that this is a problem for the NM and dbus maintainers to solve,
>> not me the bug reporter :)
>> 
>> (I could do it, I already have several possible mechanisms in mind, but it
> 
> Don't be shy, just tell your ideas, because I don't have an elegant
> solution for this.

How do kpowersave and knetworkmanager handle this situation? They both
sit on panel during upgrade, detect dbus going down and reconnects, when
it's started again.

Working network connection is still better than network connection going
down for short time ;-)

Jarek Kamiński.
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