Re: NetworkManager (was: Re: Stranded between lenny and squeeze)

2011-07-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 03 iul 11, 14:04:21, Curt wrote: > > What's wrong with just doing "apt-get -d dist-upgrade" first, thus > rendering the whole question of NM dropping the connection or not moot. > > Or am I missing something? Yes, network-manager is not restarted during package download, but during packa

Re: NetworkManager (was: Re: Stranded between lenny and squeeze)

2011-07-03 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 14:04:21 +, Curt wrote: > On 2011-07-02, Camaleón wrote: >> >> And of course, warning about NM can leave the system disconnected is a >> very good point (I didn't know NM can take that path...), so in the >> evnt this can happen and the OP is using NM, he can just turn it

Re: NetworkManager (was: Re: Stranded between lenny and squeeze)

2011-07-03 Thread Curt
On 2011-07-02, Camaleón wrote: > > And of course, warning about NM can leave the system disconnected is a > very good point (I didn't know NM can take that path...), so in the evnt > this can happen and the OP is using NM, he can just turn it off before > doing the upgrade and turn it on aftwew

Re: NetworkManager (was: Re: Stranded between lenny and squeeze)

2011-07-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 14:16:54 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 13:54:02 +, Curt wrote: > >> On 2011-07-02, Camaleón wrote: Let’s just say that GDM is a good indicator of someone also using NM. >>> >>> A notebook or a portable system is more inclided to be an indicator >

Re: NetworkManager (was: Re: Stranded between lenny and squeeze)

2011-07-02 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 13:54:02 +, Curt wrote: > On 2011-07-02, Camaleón wrote: >>> >>> Let’s just say that GDM is a good indicator of someone also using NM. >> >> A notebook or a portable system is more inclided to be an indicator for >> NM presence but not a DE or a display manager :-) >> >>

Re: NetworkManager (was: Re: Stranded between lenny and squeeze)

2011-07-02 Thread Curt
On 2011-07-02, Camaleón wrote: >> >> Let’s just say that GDM is a good indicator of someone also using NM. > > A notebook or a portable system is more inclided to be an indicator for > NM presence but not a DE or a display manager :-) > > I disable NM in all of my workstations that run GNOME. B

Re: NetworkManager (was: Re: Stranded between lenny and squeeze)

2011-07-02 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 14:01:18 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >>I run GDM and NM is off :-) > > Let’s just say that GDM is a good indicator of someone also using NM. A notebook or a portable system is more inclided to be an indicator for NM presence but not a DE or a display mana

NetworkManager (was: Re: Stranded between lenny and squeeze)

2011-07-02 Thread Claudius Hubig
Camaleón wrote: >I run GDM and NM is off :-) Let’s just say that GDM is a good indicator of someone also using NM. >But I take your point: if NM is not even capable of surviving from a >remote ssh session then here you have a very good reason to disable it >ASAP. It ‘simply’ drops all network