[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#532670: network manager causes system to fail to boot

[Steve McIntyre]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.6.6-3
Severity: critical
Rationale: system lockup

[ This might not be a network-manager bug directly, but simply
  uninstalling it fixes the problem. ]

On a whole range of newly-installed Lenny systems at work, we have a
major problem that seems to be caused by network-manager. The system
boots up and at starts gdm as normal. However, when gdm starts it
simply hangs at the X stipple screen rather than switching to the
default solid blue background. The mouse pointer responds, but
keyboard input fails to do anything (no response to numlock, can't
switch to a console). The box does not respond to pings either; we
have no option but to power-cycle.

If we purge network-manager and simply enable dhcp directly from
/etc/network/interfaces then all works just fine. There doesn't seem
to be anything useful in the logs that I can see...

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve at einval.com
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