[Bug 1072518] Re: Restart networking crashes dbus and the desktop manager

[Filiprino]

Now you got a broken system. How can I bring down all interfaces at once
now? If I have network-manager enabled is nm who controls the interfaces
and the ifup/ifdown scripts don't to their work. Now I have to take my
hands out of the keyboard to move the mouse to the up right corner of
the screen.

And you call this "GNU/Linux for humans". If it is for humans it must be
for all kinds of humans and do it easier and quicker to manage. Now
you've slowed me and other people down.

If there's a way to restart all interfaces at once while I'm using a
terminal please tell me.

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Title:
  Restart networking crashes dbus and the desktop manager

Status in D-Bus:
  Invalid
Status in “dbus” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “ifupdown” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “sysvinit” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “upstart” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  =========== WARNING ===============

  Doing:

  sudo restart networking

  or

  sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart.

  ============ WILL TEAR DOWN MOST OF YOUR DESKTOP =============

  Networking is a generic job which brings up all networking interfaces
  in the right order at boot.

  It should never be stopped nor restarted.

  It is only stop at shutdown to correctly bring down all the networking
  interfaces in the right order again.

  =========== DO NOT RESTART NETWORKING ===============

  If you want to reconfigure all networking interface you can use
  something like:

   ifdown eth0
   ifup eth0

  Or all interfaces with:

   ifdown -a --exclude=lo && ifup -a --exclude=lo

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