NetworkManager init daemon starts twice during system boot

[Ricardo Pérez López]

Binary package hint: network-manager

After one of the latest Intrepid updates, we have the following boot messages:

...
* Starting bluetooth [ OK ]
* Starting NetworkManager... [ OK ]
* Starting NetworkManager... [ fail ]
* Starting GNOME Display Manager... [ OK ]
...

NetworkManager daemon starts twice.

This is what I have into /etc/rc2.d:

$ ls /etc/rc2.d
K08vmware S20ddclient S30system-tools-backends
README S20dkms_autoinstaller S50ntp
S01apport S20festival S89anacron
S01policykit S20hotkey-setup S89atd
S05vbesave S20powernowd S89cron
S10acpid S20rsync S90binfmt-support
S10powernowd.early S20samba S90vmware
S10sysklogd S20smartmontools S98usplash
S10wacom-tools S20speech-dispatcher S99acpi-support
S10xserver-xorg-input-wacom S20wifi-radar S99laptop-mode
S11klogd S20winbind S99rc.local
S12dbus S21aumix S99rmnologin
S14avahi-daemon S24hal S99stop-bootchart
S16ssh S25bluetooth S99stop-readahead
S19spamassassin S25pulseaudio S99timidity
S20apmd S30gdm
S20cups S30NetworkManager

Why NetworkManager tries to start itself twice?

$ apt-cache policy network-manager
network-manager:
  Installed: 0.7~~svn20081008t224042-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.7~~svn20081008t224042-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.7~~svn20081008t224042-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Graziano (graziano-giuliani-gmail)]

Nothing changed with version bump.

network-manager:
  Installed: 0.7~~svn20081008t224042-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 0.7~~svn20081008t224042-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 0.7~~svn20081008t224042-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Shanmuhanathan T (shanmuha)]

I can confirm the same - started happening since yesterday's update (in GMT).

[Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo)]

Confirmed for some other users.

[Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo)]

Seems to be solved now (for me, at least). Could someone check the fix?

[Graziano (graziano-giuliani-gmail)]

Fixed also here.

[Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo)]

Marked as fixed.