[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#591232: network-manager uninstall should not deactivate network
Michel Briand
michelbriand at free.fr
Sun Aug 1 17:46:54 UTC 2010
Alexander Kurtz <kurtz.alex at googlemail.com> - Sun, 01 Aug 2010 19:20:23
+0200
>fixed 591232 0.8.0.999-1
>tag 591232 confirmed
>severity 591232 important
>thanks
>
>Hi,
>
>I investigated this problem in a VM. Here's what I found:
>
>Test time | Network-Manager Version | Network connection is configured by
> | | /etc/network/interfaces | Network-Manager
>----------------+-------------------------+-------------------------+------------------------
>after install | 0.6.6-3 (lenny) | connection is recreated | connection is recreated
>after remove | 0.6.6-3 (lenny) | connection is down | connection is down
>after install | 0.8.0.999-1 (squeeze) | connection is untouched | connection is recreated
>after remove | 0.8.0.999-1 (squeeze) | connection is untouched | connection is untouched
>
>So my conclusions are:
>
> a) Network-Manager does indeed have the described bug (connection down
> after removal).
>
> b) The connection is also down after removal even if it was configured
> manually.
>
> c) a) and b) only apply to the version in lenny, the NM version in
> squeeze seems to behave in a sensible way
>
> d) The package description clearly says that Network Manager
>
> "is intended only for the desktop use-case, and is not intended
> for usage on servers"
>
> Therefore you should expect things to break if you have it installed
> on a server. If you want to install Gnome on your server do a
> standard (non-graphical) install and then use
>
> apt-get install gnome network-manager-
>
> This will install gnome without NM.
>
>I have changed the bug report according to the above. If you or the
>maintainer think that is wrong, feel free to revert the changes.
>
>Best regards
>
>Alexander
Thank you very much for this investigation.
My "use case" was not to install NM on a server, but, with a fresh
"normal" install (which includes gnome and this NM), was to try to
remove it :).
Anyway, if squeeze's version seems to behave correctly, then that's
nice !
Regards,
Michel
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