Re: NM causes network to go down

[Bjørge Solli <bjorge solli it uib no>]

Dan Williams skrev:
> On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 17:27 +0100, Bjorge Solli wrote:
>   
> > Hi
> >
> > I'm trying to set up NM on Fedora 8 x86 and used yum to install the 
> > NetworkManager[-gnome] packages.
> >
> > If I use 'chkconfig NetworkManager on' or start NetworkManager manually 
> > with the init.d-script, it results in the eth0 (cabled network) going 
> > down. Is there a way to get it to keep the existing connections?
> >     
>
> No; when you start NetworkManager it will begin managing your
> connections.  Is this a machine that you wish to leave unattended with
> network access?
>   
See I was a bit unclear. NM may take the network down as long as it 
takes it up again. I have network login and if no network is available 
noone can log in.

The strange thing is that I cannot even log in as root (not in gdm nor 
in text console), I had to reboot into runlevel 1 to do a chkconfig 
NetworkManager off! I really don't understand why root was denied as 
network is not needed for that.

Bjørge