[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Re: Bug#419049: quota: Causes shutdown

[John Goerzen]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 02:19:04PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> No, actually I don't quite agree that it's a bug in network-manager.
> I'd argue that quota (and also the nfs umount script) shouldn't rely on
> a arbitrary priority number during shutdown.
> The real fix actually would have to happen within the init system. Our
> current init scheme is simply not flexible enough for that.
> I can do nothing about that in network-manager, that's why I reassign
> the bug again.

But why is networkmanager taking the interfaces down at a different
point in the sequence than ifupdown?  Surely it would be best to have
both systems take down interfaces at the same time, or else other
problems like this are bound to occur.