[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#546893: network-manager: write an empty /etc/resolv.conf when no connection managed

[Sylvain Le Gall]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.7.1-2
Severity: normal


On my system the network is static, no dhcp at all. This part is
acknowledgeid by NM which doesn't try to change anything regarding
network connection.

However, it rewrites my /etc/resolv.conf, but without any information,
it is an empty file.

I "google"-d a bit and don't find any good solution (except with chattr
but I am not sure it is a good solution). 

Regards
Sylvain Le Gall

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                3.110             add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                   1.2.16-2          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  dhcp3-client           3.1.2p1-1         DHCP client
ii  hal                    0.5.13-3          Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  ifupdown               0.6.9             high level tools to configure netw
ii  libc6                  2.9-26            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.16-2          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.82-1            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11            1.4.4-4           LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.20.5-1          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnutls26            2.8.3-3           the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgpg-error0          1.6-1             library for common error values an
ii  libhal1                0.5.13-3          Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libnl1                 1.1-5             library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-glib0            0.7.1-2           network management framework (GLib
ii  libnm-util1            0.7.1-2           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  libtasn1-3             2.3-1             Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libudev0               0.141-2           libudev shared library
ii  libuuid1               2.16-3            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
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  dnsmasq-base               2.50-1        A small caching DNS proxy and DHCP
ii  iptables                   1.4.4-2       administration tools for packet fi
pn  network-manager-gnome | ne <none>        (no description available)
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)