Re: NM causes network to go down

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 22:34 +0100, Bjørge Solli wrote:
> 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.

Until the system settings stuff is available (which is what I'm working
on right now) for Fedora 8 and rawhide, somebody must log so that the
applet is available to provide NetworkManager with the connections that
NM is allowed to activate.  Essentially, something must provide the
org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSettings D-Bus service, and the only thing
that currently does that is nm-applet or knetworkmanager, which only run
when somebody logs in.

Dan