Steve McIntyre wrote: > Package: network-manager > Version: 0.6.6-3 > Severity: critical > Rationale: system lockup > > [ This might not be a network-manager bug directly, but simply > uninstalling it fixes the problem. ] > > On a whole range of newly-installed Lenny systems at work, we have a > major problem that seems to be caused by network-manager. The system > boots up and at starts gdm as normal. However, when gdm starts it > simply hangs at the X stipple screen rather than switching to the > default solid blue background. The mouse pointer responds, but > keyboard input fails to do anything (no response to numlock, can't > switch to a console). The box does not respond to pings either; we > have no option but to power-cycle. > > If we purge network-manager and simply enable dhcp directly from > /etc/network/interfaces then all works just fine. There doesn't seem > to be anything useful in the logs that I can see... >
Do you use any kind of network login / ldap / nis etc? -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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