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

[Michael Biebl]

Jarek Kamiński wrote:
> 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 ;-)

Looks like NetworkManager does survive a dbus restart.

If you want, you can try the attached patch against /etc/init.d/dbus.
It skips services that are known to survive dbus restarts.
I'd be interested to know if it works for you.

Cheers,
Michael
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