[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#770871: ModemManager only starts up if system is PID 1

[Mike Gabriel]

Severity: serious
Justification: GSM modem support will not work out-of-the-box with  
non-systemd setups

Hi,

I see a similar issue about ModemManager not coming up by default via  
network-manager.

The reason is simple (after staring at mm and nm from jessie and  
wheezy for a while):

   o ModemManager comes with a DBus system-service file
   o NetworkManager in Debian wheezy triggers that service  
(org.freedesktop.ModemManager)
   o NetworkManager in Debian testing does not have that code anymore,  
it expects
     from systemd to launch ModemManager

=> systems without systemd as PID 1 fail to start ModemManager and GSM  
devices are not available in NetworkManager.

Solution IMHO:

   o Provide an init script in /etc/init.d/ that launches ModemManager  
on non-systemd machines
   o other options???

I hope we can get this fixed for jessie.

Mike

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