Comment 3 for bug 1649881

I do not think it is networkmanager's problem,
i can recreate this bug like that :
install both networkmanager and wicd
start up networkmanager
start up wicd

stop networkmanager
wicd fails to stop because it gets confused by symlink already

then it's no longer networkmanager's fault. wicd will restore failed symlink from backup forever
and will bail out because cannot operate on it.

also if you remove it manually and create new one, it cannot stop because it cannot modify .orig symlink...

solution is indeed dead simple but i think wicd should just not create backup if it's a symlink .