[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#743128: Bug#743128: network-manager: NM does not work (without systemd)
Michael Biebl
biebl at debian.org
Mon Mar 31 09:43:13 UTC 2014
Am 31.03.2014 11:40, schrieb Ralf Jung:
> Hi,
>
>>> In any case, as NM just Recommends: systemd, it should still be
>>> functional without using systemd.
>>
>> You are right. I will switch that to Depends: systemd-sysv.
>
> I can by now confirm that my issues are systemd-related: When booting my
> machine with systemd, everything behaves as expected.
>
> 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.
> So it may well be that with some small fixes (though I have no clue
> what's causing this), a "Depends: systemd" suffices.
We do have some patches which make systemd-logind work standalone, i.e.
withouth PID 1 = systemd. systemd-logind is a replacement for ConsoleKit
and used for session and user tracking.
However, with systemd 208 and later those patches no longer work. So
you'll need systemd to be PID 1.
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