[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#532670: downgrading

[Steve McIntyre]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 02:35:09PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>tags 532670 unreproducible
>severity 532670 important
>thanks
>
>Hi Steve,

Hi Michael,

>given the fact that I can't reproduce the problem and it doesn't seem to be a
>common problem (no other users confirming the issue), I'm downgrading the
>severity to important. Actually it seems more like a bug to me that is triggered
>by network-manager, not in network-manager itself.

Hmmm. What have you tried in an attempt to reproduce the bug? I can
reproduce it at will here, and I can also see clearly related problems
reproduced by people elsewhere:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=385721
(closed because of Fedora's policy to close all bugs against old
 releases *spit*)

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=500998
(also reported against network-manager)

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=510678
(reported against libnss-ldap but clearly the same problem)

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/399626
(looks like it could be the same issue, but the report is a little
vague)

We have a real problem here, which I think may be a major design bug
somewhere in network-manager or dbus or possibly gdm. I don't know
enough about the internals of any of them to say who is responsible,
but the bug is serious and I'm convincing it needs fixing. Maybe you
need to talk to upstream about this; I can happily add debug versions
of software here if needed and do simple debugging and logging, but I
don't have the time to find the fix on my own.

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