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

[Steve McIntyre]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 08:52:14PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>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?

You've beaten me to it; I was about to follow up to myself to mention
that. We've seen this using NIS on some machines, and again on newer
ones where we're trying out LDAP too.

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