[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#743128: Bug#743128: network-manager: NM does not work (without systemd)

[Evgeni Golov]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 11:40:41AM +0200, Ralf Jung wrote:

> However, interesting enough, just *installing* systemd (without using
> it) already improves the situation a lot: "nmcli c" works as expected,
> and the KDE plasma-nm applet shows the available and stored connections.
> However, for some reason, automatically connecting to a network does not
> work in this mode. After startup, I have to click "Connect" in the
> applet to initiate a wireless connection. And after resume, I have to
> click "Disconnect" and then "Connect" again for NM to re-establish my
> wireless connection.

To make things more interesting... :)
I am running LightDM with Xfce, systemd is installed, but currently not 
used. systemd-logind is running (204-7, as my machine was not rebooted 
for a while).

NM 0.9.8.8-5 works just fine as long I am logged in. When I put my 
machine to sleep (s2ram) or just lock it for an extended period of time, 
NM will tell me that my networking is completely disabled, service 
network-manager restart fixes this, and I can connect to WiFi, 3G and 
Ethernet just fine. Is this the said magic in systemd 204, which is gone 
in 208?

Greets
Evgeni, who likes systemd but would prefer NM not depending on it being 
PID 1