Firefox, dbus and NetworkManager OH MY (redux)

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 17:08 +1030, Tim wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 22:25 -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> > Is everyone also coming up in offline mode? Yes, my eth0 (and my eth1)
> > and not under NetworkManager, they are just started by good old
> > network. 
> 
> And have you stopped the NetworkManager service?  If not, it could be
> saying that you're offline because *it* hasn't made a connection.
> Regardless of any other connections that are on.
> 
> > If my eth0 and eth1 were to be started by NW, would that have caused
> > me to not see this problem?
> 
> That would be right.

Correct. NM thinks that if it doesn't handle the connection, then there
is no connection, and the rest of the system that asks NM (including
Firefox, Evolution and probably lots of others) get confused.

poc