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

[Philipp Kern]

severity 432322 serious
thanks

On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 12:01:15PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 01:40:31PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote:
> > 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:
> That's so freakingly annoying.  Couldn't you simple restart the daemon
> through invoke-rc.d in postinst instead of stopping it in preinst
> and bringing it back up in postinst?  What's the reason for this
> madness?

The Release Managers consider this bug to be RC for Lenny.  Would it be
possible to reload NetworkManager in a way not causing the network
connection to break, i.e. without the devices being deconfigured?

If all the files are replaceable while NetworkManager is still running
`dh_installinit --no-start --no-restart-on-upgrade' together with
invoke-rc.d in postinst (as n-m has an init script now, not just an
event script) would be a start as it would reduce the downtime, but
it will still deconfigure the interfaces shortly and take some time
to reaquire the IP (on LAN) and on WiFi more time to reassociate to
the AP, possibly needing user intervention.

And is #433087 (network-manager: Behaves poorly when dbus daemon is
restarted) really the same issue?  Dear maintainers, please provide
some input on this issue.

Kind regards,
Philipp Kern
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