[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#649127: network-manager wrongly reports "disconnected" state

[Michael Tokarev]

Um.  I haven't realized that it is possible to just stop
networkManager process (and disable it in /etc/rc?.d/)
in order to restore the functionality back, -- after
stopping it, all applications which were previously
refusing doing anything starts working again (What a
nice feature it is, NetworkManager!..)

So indeed, the severity of this bug may be lowered.

Now, after stopping nm, I realized it ruined my
/etc/resolv.conf with some non-trivial sorting
rules in it, replacing it with a file with just
one comment line -- "# generated by NM".  So I
had to resort to restoring that file from a
backup.

So it looks like NM does good job at _ruining_
network.

Note that the bridge setup becomes more and more
common, with more and more people discovering
virtualisation technologies.

Thanks,

/mjt