Might Be A Problem With NM

[Dan Williams]

On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 06:09 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 10:18 -0600, Richi Plana wrote:
> > Running F8T3, last night I did a "yum update" after not having done so
> > for a while (to give an idea, I had to yum update rpm* yum* to get past
> > yum update balking on the nodoka-gnome-theme dependency issue). After a
> > successful update, I tried logging in as my regular user only to block
> > for an indefinite amount of time with the background screen loaded and
> > the panel all grey.
> > 
> > After fiddling around with the system from a virtual console, I found
> > out what might be the problem. I have $HOME/Music mounted from an NFS
> > exported directory (via /etc/fstab). It seems as if the session startup
> > process blocks, prolly stat'ing the filesystem.
> > 
> > The odd thing is this used to work prior to my updating the system. Now,
> > from gdm, I notice that the ethernet connection that went up via the old
> > rc network script had gone down, prolly after NM started.
> > 
> > My question is, what should I do to fix it? Can we now remove starting
> > network interfaces at bootup via the old RC scripts and use
> > NetworkManager now?
> 
> Have to agree this is most annoying, I wonder is it a blocker...
> 
> So machine starts spends its time getting a dhcp address just to have it
> thrown away when the networkmanager service starts..
> 
> sorta sucks if you don't run X always..

This is more of an issue with installs setting the ifcfg-XXX scripts to
star the device at-boot.  If NM is being used, you don't really want the
system networking scripts to bring the device up at all, but to punt
that to the NM start.

Dan