If you're going to bodge this with a wrapper script, a better choice would address the constant network monitoring performed in whoopsie by using the assume-online command line option.
I don't know the whoopsie codebase but based on a quick reading it looks like the only real downside to this change would be that error reports generated when offline wouldn't be sent up as soon as possible, but would wait until the next time the whoopsie daemon is restarted *and* there is network connectivity. It feels like if someone cared enough to devote two hours to this, a better middle-ground could be found that only polled the network once an error report had been generated. It might require even more abuse of global variables, but it shouldn't be too hideous. Thanks ** Information type changed from Public Security to Public -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to glib2.0 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/991481 Title: Constant dns traffic for daisy.ubuntu.com Status in Ubuntu error tracker client (whoopsie): Confirmed Status in glib2.0 package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in network-manager package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in whoopsie package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Watching GNetworkMonitor's network-changed signal causes constant DNS traffic. Andy Whitcroft points out that the NETLINK_ROUTE socket set up by GNetworkMonitor will fire events every time an ARP entry appears or disappears. Unfortunately, we currently need an additional layer of connectivity checking because checking NetworkManager's state for CONNECTED_GLOBAL is not enough to know whether we're really online. Ubuntu does not yet use the NetworkManager connectivity check [1]. The likely solution to this bug is a replacement for GNetworkMonitor in whoopsie. 1: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~daisy- pluckers/whoopsie/trunk/view/head:/src/connectivity.c#L326 Original report follows: Every few seconds, I see a dns query for daisy.ubuntu.com. After removing whoopsie, the traffic goes away. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/whoopsie/+bug/991481/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
