gnome-settings-daemon indeed crashes in that case, which breaks a load of things, including the desktop manager in general.
The reason for this is that when you restart the networking job, it kills off the system dbus bus, which brings down quite a lot of stuff with it. ** Package changed: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu) => gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1072518 Title: Restarting network crashes (apparently) the desktop manager To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/1072518/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs