Re: Networkmanager service is shutdown too early

[Simo Sorce <ssorce redhat com>]

On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 14:24 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 13:59 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Dan Williams (dcbw redhat com) said: 
> > > > 'After netfs' should be good enough. Although netfs stop should possibly
> > > > do lazy umounts.
> > > 
> > > Ok, just need to bump NM a few bits later it looks like; might as well
> > > be K84 to be right after messagebus.
> > 
> > Well, NM will exit anyway when the messagebus exits, will it not?
> 
> No, because the Debian guys got all cranky and want NM to handle dbus
> dropouts, because if they need to restart dbus because of a security
> issue they don't want that to take down the entire machine including
> networking.  So there's code to poll the bus every so often and try to
> reconnect if NM gets disconnected (either due to an NM error like
> sending a non-UTF8 string over the bus or if dbus quits/dies).

I am very glad the debian guys got "all cranky" on this issue,
Temrinating network connections just  because a component need to
resytart is plain silly.

Simo.

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