Hello, A month ago, I disabled Network Manager service in my Squeeze system so it doesn't run on start up. I wanted to keep NM installed (just in case) but preferred to use the old "ifup" network setup method.
So I issued "update-rc.d network-manager remove" and also disabled gnome NM applet from being started. So far so good, no more NM running at booting. A couple of days ago I lost network connectivity in that system (no Internet/local access because "eth0" was not getting an IP from dhcp server, as used to). I had to restart the whole system in order to restore network connectivity (neither restarting networking service nor "ifup/down eth0" had any positive effect). After a bit of digging, I realized that Network Manager service was running (!) again. I did not enable, so something happened which caused the service to be "reengaged" again. Looking into "/var/log/apt/term.log" I saw the following (sorry, the log is recorded in Spanish, hope is still clear): *** Log started: 2010-12-01 23:44:34 (...) Preparando para reemplazar network-manager 0.8.1-3 (usando .../network- manager_0.8.1-4_i386.deb) ... Desempaquetando el reemplazo de network-manager ... Preparando para reemplazar network-manager-gnome 0.8.1-1 (usando .../ network-manager-gnome_0.8.1-2_i386.deb) ... Desempaquetando el reemplazo de network-manager-gnome ... (...) Configurando network-manager (0.8.1-4) ... Reloading system message bus config...done. Stopping network connection manager: NetworkManager already stopped. Disabling interfaces configured with plain DHCP in /etc/network/ interfaces so that NetworkManager can take them over Auto interfaces found: lo eth0 iface to disable = eth0 Disabling interface: eth0 ... done. Starting network connection manager: NetworkManager. Configurando network-manager-gnome (0.8.1-2) ... *** Basically, the log says on December 1st there was an update for NM and a new package got installed (0.8.1-4). After that, even though NM service was expressly disabled, the update seems to re-enabled it again. Before I fill a bug report (I think a service that has been manually disabled should keep its state regardless any further update it can be applied afterwards), I would like to get some feedback... what do you think on this matter? I missed something -there is a better way to handle this or should I write a report? Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.12.07.16.21...@gmail.com
