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

[Bryan Gonzalez]

@Dimitri Thanks for the patch. This was all about tying up loose ends.
Many unofficial resources on the web and some official ones too
explicitly direct users to directly invoke that particular script.
Which, if you are not in the loop, as I was and apparently another 119
users were, will lead you to inadvertently crashing your system. This
was a left-over deprecated functionality that though 'everyone knows no
to use it' will cause damage if used. As you eloquently put it, this
functionality no longer has any practical use, therefore it needed to be
pruned. Again I thank you.

Many tend to forget that Ubuntu's vision is to be the OS for humans. In
many ways it has achieved this, but there is still room to improve.
You'll find that for many people, Ubuntu is the first non M$ and non Mac
OS that they ever experience, making it an excellent learning platform
for people. So even though there is a wide gap between gui users and cli
users, you'll find a large group somewhere in-between. So that's why it
was so important to me to have this issue resolved. If a function is
useless yet still carries the potential for harm, then there is no
reason for it to exist. So thanks for your assistance.

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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:
  In Progress
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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