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  1. Bug #1072518
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 1072518

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Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox) wrote : Re: Restarting network crashes (apparently) the desktop manager

gnome-settings-daemon indeed crashes in that case, which breaks a load of things, including the desktop manager in general.

The reason for this is that when you restart the networking job, it kills off the system dbus bus, which brings down quite a lot of stuff with it.