RFC: new modes in network-manager 0.7 + ifupdown
Steve Langasek
steve.langasek at ubuntu.com
Tue Oct 14 18:21:16 BST 2008
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 03:55:23AM +1100, Jamie Jones wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 17:04 +0100, James Westby wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 17:05 +0200, Alexander Sack wrote:
> > > Yes, thats right and I thought about that case before.
> > > The right solution would use nm-tool or some handcrafted D-Bus calls
> > > to detect whether NM is running in managed mode or not. That should be
> > > fairly simple and is certainly something we should look into for
> > > jaunty.
> > Um, forgive my ignorance, but when "ifup -a" is run at boot is the
> > system bus going to be running?
> It in some cases, it should be - dbus is listed as starting at S12 and
> networking at S40 in /etc/rc.*
No, networking is started in runlevel S and dbus isn't started until
runlevel 2; so the ordering here is wrong.
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