Networkmanager service is shutdown too early

Valent Turkovic valent.turkovic at gmail.com
Wed Jun 4 07:42:22 UTC 2008


Dan Williams wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 19:47 +0100, Kostas Georgiou wrote:
>> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 01:46:42PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 13:41 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>>>> Dan Williams (dcbw at redhat.com) said: 
>>>>> On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 10:54 +0200, Valent Turkovic wrote:
>>>>>> During the boot I have some samba shares mounted because I have them
>>>>>> configured to mount via fstab file.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> When I shutdown or reboot I get a screen for 2-3 minutes that shows
>>>>>> smbfs service trying to unmount samba shares but NM service has
>>>>>> already shutdown and there is no working network connection :(
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have seen this "bad" behaviour in F8 and have reported it on this
>>>>>> mailinglist, but I hoped that the new and smarter NM would take care
>>>>>> of it, but unfortunately it didn't :(
>>>>> Probably need to adjust the stop priorities of NM and haldaemon to be
>>>>> right after messagebus (K85) rather than where they currently are...
>>>>> The problem is that NM is being stopped to early.
>>>> 'After netfs' should be good enough. Although netfs stop should possibly
>>>> do lazy umounts.
>>> Ok, just need to bump NM a few bits later it looks like; might as well
>>> be K84 to be right after messagebus.
>> Why not go all the way to 90 as network to be on the safe side? With a
>> quick look I can see some scripts that might not be happy if the network
>> is down with a priority above 84, racoon/dund/rdisc/rpcgssd/nasd for example.
> 
> NM depend on messagebus at least, so we should stop NM right before
> messagebus.  But the same issues with startup are theoretically present
> with shutdown, meaning that since messagebus depends on rsyslog, and
> rsyslog depends on network.  Standard installs don't use networked
> syslog, so standard installs don't actually need rsyslog to depend on
> network, but because rsyslog isn't smart enough to know when it does or
> does not depend on network, we can't just re-order the chain... :(
> 
> Dan
> 

Dan what is the conclusion about this bug? This is a looong thread but 
nothing is updated on bugzilla page so is there some consensus on what 
needs to be done?

Cheers,
Valent.




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