Re: NetworkManager instead of Wicd in ‘%desktop-services’?

[Adam Van Ymeren]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Adam Van Ymeren <address@hidden> skribis:
>> Most of the time I have to restart my applications like icecat of emacs
>> when my network settings change.  I'm using wpa_supplicant and dhclient
>> by hand rather than wicd.
>>
>> Something somewhere is caching network information longer than it should
>> be.
>
> Could you try after running “sudo herd stop nscd”?
>
> nscd caches host name lookups, so if you switch, say, to a captive
> portal, you have to turn nscd off.

I finally had the problem reproduce.  It only really appears to happen
to me when changing from wireless to wired (when I get
back home to my desk for instance).

In that situation, icecat would fail to resolve any hostnames.  However
when I do "# herd stop nscd" like you suggested icecat immediately
starts working again.  So perhaps nscd is being a bit sticky to which
interface it should be using?