[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#415891: etch

[Kai Hendry]

I recently installed testing/etch and this problem was really one of the
only problems that pissed me off. :)

It took a while to track this bug. I also went into gnome session to try
disable the icon and network manager to no avail. I feel that is the
path of the solution. Making the "disconnected" icon on a static IP easy
to remove.

Well I guess `sudo apt-get remove network-manager` is quite easy. Maybe
somehow the install can tell the task list not to install
network-manager if a static IP was used?

First the boot log gave me a clue to getting rid of 'Network Manager'.
Took me a while to realise these NetworkManager messages were coming
from dbus. While I am here, what's the point of avahi? Doesn't dbus do
avahi's job? Or vice versa?

Thu Apr  5 18:13:45 2007: Starting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd.
Thu Apr  5 18:13:45 2007: Starting system message bus: dbus.
Thu Apr  5 18:13:46 2007: Starting Hardware abstraction layer: hald.
Thu Apr  5 18:13:51 2007: Starting DHCP D-Bus daemon: dhcdbd.
Thu Apr  5 18:13:51 2007: Starting network connection manager: NetworkManager.
Thu Apr  5 18:13:51 2007: Starting Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon: avahi-daemon.
Thu Apr  5 18:13:51 2007: Starting network events dispatcher: NetworkManagerDispatcher.
Thu Apr  5 18:13:51 2007: Starting MTA: exim4.
Thu Apr  5 18:13:57 2007: Starting internet superserver: inetd.
Thu Apr  5 18:13:57 2007: Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshd.
Thu Apr  5 18:13:57 2007: Starting GNOME Display Manager: gdm.
Thu Apr  5 18:13:58 2007: Starting NFS common utilities: statd.
Thu Apr  5 18:13:59 2007: Starting anac(h)ronistic cron: anacron.
Thu Apr  5 18:14:00 2007: Starting deferred execution scheduler: atd.
Thu Apr  5 18:14:00 2007: Starting periodic command scheduler: crond.

Anyway, I think the NetworkManager bootup message could be clearer by
referring to dbus. Something like:

Starting DBUS network connection manager: NetworkManager.
Starting DBUS network events dispatcher: NetworkManagerDispatcher.

Best wishes,