Re: jhbuild run for NetworkManager

[Aleksander Morgado <aleksander aleksander es>]

On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Lubomir Rintel <lrintel redhat com> wrote:
> > One problem is that the system-wide NetworkManager instance gets D-Bus
> > activated at random times.
> > E.g.
> >
> >    systemctl stop NetworkManager
> >
> >    # NetworkManager gets D-Bus activated again
> >
> >    ./src/NetworkManager --debug
> >    # fails with:
> >    # Could not acquire the NetworkManager service as it is already taken.
> >
> > For that, you could do:
> >
> >    chmod -x /sbin/NetworkManager
>
> "systemctl mask NetworkManager" is probably less invasive and should be
> preferred (doesn't modify the packaged files, just adds configuration).

Disabling and stopping is enough, there's no need to fully mask the
service; i.e.:
# systemctl disable NetworkManager
# systemctl stop NetworkManager
# /other/prefix/NetworkManager --debug

Beware, though, doing this works as long as the dbus files are the
same in the system-installed and custom-compiled version.

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Aleksander
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