On a related note... I've managed to have my system behave nicely by adding the line "exit 0" to /etc/dbus-1/event.d/25NetworkManager just after the first block of comments.
This appears to prevent DBUS from telling NetworkManager to attack my system. -- network-manager should not set offline mode when it manages no device https://launchpad.net/bugs/82335 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
