[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#538664: network-manager: incorrectly signals applications to go offline with no managed interfaces

[Arthur de Jong]

Subject: network-manager: incorrectly signals applications to go offline with no managed interfaces
Package: network-manager
Version: 0.7.1-1
Severity: normal

When network-manager does not find any managed interfaces (e.g. eth0 is
managed through /etc/network/interfaces like on the default install) it
seems to signal applications that they should work offline (at least
evince and liferea do this). This is pretty annoying because every time
I start up my computer I have to manually say that applications should
go online.

My /etc/network/interfaces:
auto lo eth0
iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet dhcp

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser      3.110                       add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus         1.2.16-2                    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  dhcp3-client 3.1.2p1-1                   DHCP client
ii  hal          0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-2 Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  ifupdown     0.6.8+nmu1                  high level tools to configure netw
ii  libc6        2.9-21                      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3  1.2.16-2                    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib 0.80-4                      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11  1.4.4-3                     LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0 2.20.4-1                    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnutls26  2.6.6-1                     the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgpg-error 1.6-1                       library for common error values an
ii  libhal1      0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-2 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libnl1       1.1-5                       library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-glib0  0.7.1-1                     network management framework (GLib
ii  libnm-util1  0.7.1-1                     network management framework (shar
ii  libpolkit-db 0.9-4                       library for accessing PolicyKit vi
ii  libpolkit2   0.9-4                       library for accessing PolicyKit
ii  libtasn1-3   2.2-1                       Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libuuid1     1.41.8-2                    Universally Unique ID library
ii  lsb-base     3.2-23                      Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  wpasupplican 0.6.9-3                     client support for WPA and WPA2 (I
ii  zlib1g       1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-14           compression library - runtime

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  dnsmasq-base               2.49-1        A small caching DNS proxy and DHCP
ii  iptables                   1.4.4-1       administration tools for packet fi
ii  network-manager-gnome      0.7.1-1       network management framework (GNOM
ii  policykit                  0.9-4         framework for managing administrat
ii  ppp                        2.4.4rel-10.1 Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - da

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
pn  avahi-autoipd                 <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information

-- 
-- arthur - adejong at debian.org - http://people.debian.org/~adejong --
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