[Bug 1072518] Re: Restart networking crashes dbus and the desktop manager

[Bryan Gonzalez]

@Vincas
Thanks for the information. I had not read about the formal decision. However, you are still agreeing with me that sysvinit is deprecated. So whether it's for Upstart or Systemd, the existence of the now defunct networking init script still needs to be addressed since for the forseeable future, 14.04 LTS included, we will still be using Upstart. SRC: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1316 

@Steve
I'm surprised. I just got done reading https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/initsystem/upstart which indicates you are the position maintainer. I was actually referring to this debate without directly quoting it. So I can see how this bug strikes a nerve with you. But debating aside, the issue (the networking init script) still needs to be addressed. My preference is to fix the script so that it works correctly with Upstart, for as stated above, we will still be using it for some time.

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Title:
  Restart networking crashes dbus and the desktop manager

Status in D-Bus:
  Confirmed
Status in “dbus” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “ifupdown” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in “sysvinit” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “upstart” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  =========== WARNING ===============

  Doing:

  sudo restart networking

  or

  sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart.

  ============ WILL TEAR DOWN MOST OF YOUR DESKTOP =============

  Networking is a generic job which brings up all networking interfaces
  in the right order at boot.

  It should never be stopped nor restarted.

  It is only stop at shutdown to correctly bring down all the networking
  interfaces in the right order again.

  =========== DO NOT RESTART NETWORKING ===============

  If you want to reconfigure all networking interface you can use
  something like:

   ifdown eth0
   ifup eth0

  Or all interfaces with:

   ifdown -a --exclude=lo && ifup -a --exclude=lo

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