[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#562748: network-manager: takes network down, not working, changes hostname

[Roberto Lumbreras]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.7.2-2
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software

After installing network-manager in an updated testing system (but without
network-manager) it happened the following:

-wireless network interface eth1 was taken down (it is "allow-hotplug"
but it was set up manually), breaking several running applications that
were using the network
-hostname was set to `localhost' (not what it is in /etc/hostname),
breaking all running X applications, as they could no longer access to the
Xserver. Why the hell a program should change the hostname of a running
system???
-network was left down, and nm-applet says wireless device is not ready

I've tried two times and installing network-manager and
network-manager-gnome
it does the same again.

I think this is a complete mess. Network-manager was working a week ago in
this system, but after an upgrade it stopped working, so I manually
de-installed it and I set up the network myself. Now I was giving it a
second chance, as I thought it was my fault for not upgrading this system
more often, but it seems network-manager is just broken.

I think that no program should ever touch the hostname, this is critical
and breaks lots of things.

Regards,
Roberto Lumbreras

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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.111      add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                          1.2.16-2   simple interprocess messaging
syst
ii  dhcp3-client                  3.1.3-1    DHCP client
ii  hal                           0.5.14-1   Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  ifupdown                      0.6.9      high level tools to configure
netw
ii  libc6                         2.10.2-2   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.16-2   simple interprocess messaging
syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2              0.82-2     simple interprocess messaging
syst
ii  libgcrypt11                   1.4.4-6    LGPL Crypto library - runtime
libr
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.22.3-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnutls26                   2.8.5-2    the GNU TLS library - runtime
libr
ii  libhal1                       0.5.14-1   Hardware Abstraction Layer -
share
ii  libnl1                        1.1-5      library for dealing with
netlink s
ii  libnm-glib0                   0.7.2-2    network management framework
(GLib
ii  libnm-util1                   0.7.2-2    network management framework
(shar
ii  libpolkit-dbus2               0.9-4      library for accessing PolicyKit
vi
ii  libpolkit2                    0.9-4      library for accessing PolicyKit
ii  libudev0                      149-1      libudev shared library
ii  libuuid1                      2.16.2-0   Universally Unique ID library
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-23     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init
scrip
ii  wpasupplicant                 0.6.9-3    client support for WPA and WPA2
(I

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  dnsmasq-base               2.51-1        A small caching DNS proxy and
DHCP
ii  iptables                   1.4.5-1       administration tools for packet
fi
ii  network-manager-gnome      0.7.2-1       network management framework
(GNOM
ii  policykit                  0.9-4         framework for managing
administrat
ii  ppp                        2.4.4rel-10.1 Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) -
da

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
pn  avahi-autoipd                 <none>     (no description available)

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