Bug#681834: Call for votes on network-manager, gnome
On 11 September 2012 21:32, Chris Knadle <Chris.Knadle@coredump.us> wrote:
> - There are other network managers than NM.
Of course, but only one is part of GNOME. Nothing else integrates into
GNOME Shell's top bar or System Settings (gnome-control-center). GNOME
2 was different as wicd could integrate just as well as NetworkManager
did.
> - My experience has been that NM conflicts with wicd when NM is running.
You have two network managers running on your computer and you expect
networking to not have problems?
> - Furthermore my experience has been that disabling NM via modifying the
> init script (i.e. the "exit 0" suggestion which came up on [debian-devel],
> or making the init script non-executble) only works until NM is upgraded,
> whereby the init script is replaced and thus the NM daemon starts again --
> which on Sid happens fairly regularly.
>
> - Wishlist bug #685742 [1] suggested a way to disable NM permanently via a
> /etc/default/<package> file (like wicd comes with) but was outright
> rejected, in favor of instead using "update-rc.d network-manager disable"
> -- the latter of which isn't mentioned anywhere in the documentation that
> comes with NM.
'update-rc.d network-manager disable' follows the traditional way to
deactivate system services. Trying to hack the init script is a bad
idea and using /etc/default/ is unnecessary.
It looks like you're right that NetworkManager itself doesn't come
with documentation for disabling itself but maybe it should. 'man
update-rc.d' works too though.
Jeremy
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