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sysvinit package

  1. Bug #211631
  2. Comment #171

Comment 171 for bug 211631

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Alonso Andres (alo-and) wrote :

Is the solution described in comment #143 and comment #147 really the correct one?

In short, that means dbus always stops on the event deconfiguring-networking, which is emitted when "/etc/init.d/networking stop" is called.

In other words, whenever "/etc/init.d/networking stop" is called, dbus gets killed.
That has a nasty effect: when dbus stops, gnome-settings-daemon crashes and that means the desktop theme is lost.

Please see bug #868095 [1] and my comment #3 on that bug.

VMware Tools does this all the time (calling networking stop) when suspending the machine. That means you are guaranteed to get a horrible looking (and not completely functional) desktop whenever you resume your VMware session.

That also happens if I simply restart the networking service:
    /etc/init.d/networking stop
    /etc/init.d/networking start

    (Of course, because this chain reaction that leads to gnome-settings-daemon death starts on "networking stop")

In conclusion, this seems to be a serious issue. I wonder if that is happening with more people besides myself and the other fella on bug #868095.

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/868095