network services at boot (was Re: Boot charting)

On 11/17/05, Tristan Wibberley <maihem at maihem.org> wrote:
> Paul M Edwards wrote:
> >
> > This sounds like the best route.
> > It works well with the high-priority spec to use NetworkManager in
> > Dapper, which handles the interfaces automatically and is
> > backwards-compatible with the if-up scripts.
> >
> > https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/network-magic
>
> This Network Manager seems to depend on dbus. Does that mean that if
> dbus dies network hotplugging will break, even after dbus has restarted
> - and after dbus upgrades?


This will need to be addressed:

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/dbus-restarts

"Fix all D-BUS applications/libraries to cope with the bus being
restarted, or decide to never restart the bus."

D-BUS needs to be dependable to be relied on and in order to make it
so, they need bug reports. To get bug reports they need applications
that rely on it. It's almost a paradox akin to the chicken & egg.
--
Paul M Edwards