Just upgraded to 26. I believe that this is an issue with every Fedora type
that ships Cockpit though...

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Radka

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*Radka Janeková*
.NET & OpenShift Engineer, Red Hat
*[email protected] <[email protected]>*
IRC: radka | Freenode: Rhea


On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 11:48 AM, Stef Walter <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 17.10.2017 11:24, Radka Janekova wrote:
> >> Sorry to hear that happened. Cockpit depends on Network manager to
> > provide it's network functionality. Network manager is pretty standard
> > part of many linux distros. Having the cockpit-networking package depend
> > on it is not a mistake, it needs to be there to ensure that cockpit has
> > what it needs to run.
> >>
> >> I'm not sure how removing cockpit would bork a server though. I've
> > been able to install and uninstall cockpit-networking on lots of systems
> > without issues. Do you have any more details you can provide us? What
> > Version/OS was this on? which commands did you run? A way for us to
> > reproduce the errors you had would be helpful.
> >
> > It was simple. Dnf remove Cockpit -> removed network manager, which I
> > did not notice for several months. Server reboot -> all DNS related
> > things have suddenly failed.
> >
> > It was either Fedora server 25, or cloud base 25 images. Essentially
> > anything that ships with Cockpit should have NM "installed first"
> > (marked, etc..) so DNF knows that we actually want it there, regardless
> > of Cockpit. Or whatever other solution that would prevent it be
> > uninstalled while maintaining the rest of the usual functionality of
> > dnf. Changing dnf configuration is not exactly the best solution...
>
> If this happens, then this is a bug in Fedora Server (or Cloud). Can you
> post /etc/os-release?
>
> This is a distro specific packaging/dependency bug and not a bug in
> Cockpit.
>
> Stephen, should we file a Fedora bug about this? Any ideas which component?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Stef
>
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > *Radka Janeková*
> > .NET & OpenShift Engineer, Red Hat
> > *[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>*
> > IRC: radka | Freenode: Rhea
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 3:59 AM, Peter <[email protected]
> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> >     Sorry to hear that happened. Cockpit depends on Network manager to
> >     provide it's network functionality. Network manager is pretty
> >     standard part of many linux distros. Having the cockpit-networking
> >     package depend on it is not a mistake, it needs to be there to
> >     ensure that cockpit has what it needs to run.
> >
> >     I'm not sure how removing cockpit would bork a server though. I've
> >     been able to install and uninstall cockpit-networking on lots of
> >     systems without issues. Do you have any more details you can provide
> >     us? What Version/OS was this on? which commands did you run? A way
> >     for us to reproduce the errors you had would be helpful.
> >
> >     On 10/16/2017 06:20 PM, Radka Janekova wrote:
> >
> >         Hi,
> >
> >         so recently I managed to destroy[1] two production servers by
> >         removing what I saw as useless web-config utility. Apparently
> >         Cockpit depends on NetworkManager, which nobody would expect and
> >         is easily overlooked.
> >
> >         PLEASE FIX
> >
> >         [1] https://cloud.rhea-ayase.eu/s/eH6JX43kYErHJ3s
> >         <https://cloud.rhea-ayase.eu/s/eH6JX43kYErHJ3s>
> >
> >         Cheers,
> >         Radka
> >         ------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------
> >         *Radka Janeková*
> >         .NET & OpenShift Engineer, Red Hat
> >         *[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> >         <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>*
> >         IRC: radka | Freenode: Rhea
> >
> >
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