[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#760998: Bug#760998: Bug#760998: Acknowledgement (network-manager: auto restarts)

[Michael Biebl]

Thanks for the reply Dan!

Am 09.03.2015 um 15:41 schrieb Dan Williams:
> On Mon, 2015-03-09 at 09:13 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> Dan, is dropping the D-Bus autoactivation safe, i.e. removing
>> /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service?
> 
> Yeah, it's safe, though it might slightly slow your bootup for some
> reason I don't remember.  Something about not being able to parallelize
> bootup, because if something calls NM methods via D-Bus, systemd won't
> be able to activate NM and block the receiving process until NM starts,
> so the receiving process will just get an error instead of waiting.  But
> I guess that's supposed to be the current situation too with our
> Exec=/bin/false hack that hasn't worked in a while.
> 
> It's worth a try to remove that file, and change the systemd unit file's
> [install] section to remove the Alias.  Let me know if that breaks
> bootup horribly or something?

I guess I'll do that then. If it's only about a slight speed
improvement, I think we can live with that.

I wasn't sure, if some clients (like gdm) would fail, if the NM D-Bus
name is not present.
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