Re: NM causes network to go down

[Bjørge Solli <bjorge solli it uib no>]

Dan Williams skrev:
> On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 22:34 +0100, Bjørge Solli wrote:
>   
> > 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.
>   
Ok. Any timeline for the settings stuff? Untill you have that ready I 
guess using ldap and network home disk (cifs) won't work after starting NM.

Do you also have an idea as to why starting NM prevents root from 
logging in?

Bjørge
- while trying to set up a centrally managed linux-laptop system for 
University of Bergen, Norway.