[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#432322: Bug#432322: network-manager: package upgrade kills network connections every time

[Michael Biebl]

Philipp Kern wrote:
> severity 432322 serious
> thanks
> 
> On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 12:01:15PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 01:40:31PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote:
>>> The last two times that the network-manager package has
>>> been upgraded, the process of doing so has killed my active
>>> network connections, including the ssh session with the
>>> controlling tty for the aptitude upgrade process:
>> That's so freakingly annoying.  Couldn't you simple restart the daemon
>> through invoke-rc.d in postinst instead of stopping it in preinst
>> and bringing it back up in postinst?  What's the reason for this
>> madness?
> 
> The Release Managers consider this bug to be RC for Lenny.  Would it be
> possible to reload NetworkManager in a way not causing the network
> connection to break, i.e. without the devices being deconfigured?

No, that's not possible. Ethernet maybe, wireless no way.

> If all the files are replaceable while NetworkManager is still running
> `dh_installinit --no-start --no-restart-on-upgrade' together with
> invoke-rc.d in postinst (as n-m has an init script now, not just an
> event script) would be a start as it would reduce the downtime, but
> it will still deconfigure the interfaces shortly and take some time
> to reaquire the IP (on LAN) and on WiFi more time to reassociate to
> the AP, possibly needing user intervention.
> 
> And is #433087 (network-manager: Behaves poorly when dbus daemon is
> restarted) really the same issue?  Dear maintainers, please provide
> some input on this issue.

There has been said a lot already, so I won't repeat everything.

I'll probably use the --no-restart-on-upgrade dh_installinit option + 
notify the user via update-notifier to reboot it's machine.

Not something I'm really fond of, but hey.

Cheers,
Michael

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