Excerpts from bdoe's message of Tue May 24 20:54:25 UTC 2011: > >On a functional level perhaps it is worth considering whether Network > >Manager, on stopping, should simply leave the interfaces as currently > >configured instead of taking them down. I can make the argument that > >Network Manager is a tool to make it easy for the user to control > >network interfaces, but Network Manager is not the owner of those > >interfaces, the system and user are. If the user makes a connection using > >Network Manger and then disables NM, why shouldn't the interface stay > >up until the user or a shutdown sequence takes it down? > > Good point. However, an argument could also be made that if a user uses > Network Manager to set up and establish the network connections, the > user expects Network Manager to own and manage those connections. A > logical extension of this expectation is that, when Network Manager is > shut down, it takes its connections with it. If the user wants a more > "permanent" connection, then the user should set up the connection > manually. At least, that's the way I would expect things to work.
Right, lets make sure this discussion happens in the right place, which would be in the GNOME bug report. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/211631 Title: Network is brought down before network filesystems are unmounted (CIFS timeout at shutdown) -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
