[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#491826: Bug#491826: Upstream bug report

[Michael Biebl]

Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Am Mittwoch 17 Dezember 2008 schrieb Michael Biebl:
>> Martin Steigerwald wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> There is already an upstream bug report for this:
>>>
>>> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=418745
>>>
>>> Upstream doesn't seem to be interested in fixing false network online
>>> status reports or even deleting default routes in that case. NM
>>> didn't do the later here yet tough.
>> I agree, that this situation is less than ideal (and thanks for the
>> nice writeup). With 0.7 the situation will be better, as NM can handle
>> more different use case (static ip etc.), but the underlying problem
>> still exists.
>>
>> A short term fix could be, to assume the network status to be "online"
>> for unmanaged devices, rather than offline. This way apps wouldn't go
>> into offline mode. What you will get though eventually, is unsuccessful
>> network connection attempts (but that wouldn't be a regression with
>> regard to old ifupdown).
>>
>> Ubuntu ships a patch for exactly that, and I could pull it from there
> 
> Sounds like a plan! Currently I just disabled Network Manager altogether. 
> I just use it when I use wifi and at home and work I have port 
> replicators for my ThinkPads.

Attached is the patch from Ubuntu (for 0.6.6) I was talking about.

Care to give it a try?

If we want to get it into lenny, I'd have to prepare an upload rsn.

Michael

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