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

[Michael Biebl]

Steve McIntyre wrote:
> 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...
> 

Do you use any kind of network login / ldap / nis etc?


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