[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#978935: Bug#978935: Bug#978935: network-manager: disconnect on upgrade

[Michael Biebl]

Am 01.01.21 um 16:05 schrieb Vincent Lefevre:
> On 2021-01-01 15:12:06 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> Am 01.01.21 um 14:55 schrieb Vincent Lefevre:
>>> On 2021-01-01 12:58:48 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
>>>> Am 01.01.21 um 01:19 schrieb Vincent Lefevre:
>>>>> The name of the active connection could be stored in a file, so that
>>>>> a reexec'ed daemon could pick the information. By active connection,
>>>>> I mean the last connection chosen by the user, under the condition
>>>>> that the user has not explicitly disconnected.
>>>>
>>>> It's not that simple, unfortunately. There is much more state,
>>>> especially in external daemons like wpasupplicant.
>>>
>>> The name of the active connection and the associate device is shown
>>> by "nmcli connection". This is everything what one needs to know.
>>> I just had to do "nmcli device wifi connect <SSID>" to reconnect.
>>
>> That is something different. This stops your connection when NetworkManager
>> stops and starts it again, when NetworkManager starts.
> 
> But much better than the current behavior, where NetworkManager
> remains disconnected.

This is not the default behaviour.

If NM failed to establish a connection, you should investigate why.

When I restart NetworkManager, my WiFi connection is stopped but 
successfully established again.


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