Package: network-manager<br>Version: 0.7.2-2<br>Severity: critical<br>Justification: breaks unrelated software<br>
<br>After installing network-manager in an updated testing system (but without<br>network-manager) it happened the following:<br><br>-wireless network interface eth1 was taken down (it is "allow-hotplug"<br>but it was set up manually), breaking several running applications that<br>
were using the network<br>-hostname was set to `localhost' (not what it is in /etc/hostname),<br>breaking all running X applications, as they could no longer access to the<br>Xserver. Why the hell a program should change the hostname of a running<br>
system???<br>-network was left down, and nm-applet says wireless device is not ready<br><br>I've tried two times and installing network-manager and network-manager-gnome<br>it does the same again.<br>
<br>I think this is a complete mess. Network-manager was working a week ago in<br>this system, but after an upgrade it stopped working, so I manually<br>de-installed it and I set up the network myself. Now I was giving it a<br>
second chance, as I thought it was my fault for not upgrading this system<br>more often, but it seems network-manager is just broken.<br><br>I think that no program should ever touch the hostname, this is critical<br>and breaks lots of things.<br>
<br>Regards,<br>Roberto Lumbreras<br><br>-- System Information:<br>Debian Release: squeeze/sid<br> APT prefers testing<br> APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')<br>Architecture: i386 (i686)<br><br>
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)<br>Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)<br>Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash<br><br>Versions of packages network-manager depends on:<br>ii adduser 3.111 add and remove users and groups<br>
ii dbus 1.2.16-2 simple interprocess messaging syst<br>ii dhcp3-client 3.1.3-1 DHCP client<br>ii hal 0.5.14-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer<br>ii ifupdown 0.6.9 high level tools to configure netw<br>
ii libc6 2.10.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries<br>ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.16-2 simple interprocess messaging syst<br>ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.82-2 simple interprocess messaging syst<br>
ii libgcrypt11 1.4.4-6 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr<br>ii libglib2.0-0 2.22.3-1 The GLib library of C routines<br>ii libgnutls26 2.8.5-2 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr<br>
ii libhal1 0.5.14-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share<br>ii libnl1 1.1-5 library for dealing with netlink s<br>ii libnm-glib0 0.7.2-2 network management framework (GLib<br>
ii libnm-util1 0.7.2-2 network management framework (shar<br>ii libpolkit-dbus2 0.9-4 library for accessing PolicyKit vi<br>ii libpolkit2 0.9-4 library for accessing PolicyKit<br>
ii libudev0 149-1 libudev shared library<br>ii libuuid1 2.16.2-0 Universally Unique ID library<br>ii lsb-base 3.2-23 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip<br>
ii wpasupplicant 0.6.9-3 client support for WPA and WPA2 (I<br><br>Versions of packages network-manager recommends:<br>ii dnsmasq-base 2.51-1 A small caching DNS proxy and DHCP<br>
ii iptables 1.4.5-1 administration tools for packet fi<br>ii network-manager-gnome 0.7.2-1 network management framework (GNOM<br>ii policykit 0.9-4 framework for managing administrat<br>
ii ppp 2.4.4rel-10.1 Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - da<br><br>Versions of packages network-manager suggests:<br>pn avahi-autoipd <none> (no description available)<br><br>
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