That the mount failure prevents X from starting is the fault of some other package (but I don't know which one). This report should be marked as Affecting that package.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/578985 Title: DHCP Server offline, causes IP release, causes X Windows not responding Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Binary package hint: network-manager I started with a basic fstab mount for a CIFS share on the local file system. Nothing fancy about the mount. Use these instructions to duplicate: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MountWindowsSharesPermanently Sometimes my DHCP Server goes offline for whatever reason. The result is ubuntu releases the IP of the network interface. A that point X Windows stops responding (Both GNOME, and KDE in Karmic Kubuntu). I'm not able to change window focus. Minimizing doesn't work. The Start menu doesn't appear. Everything is stalled. If, for whatever reason, my DHCP server isn't back online yet and I don't feel like assigning a static IP, and I would like to continue using ubuntu I have to switch to another tty and do a lazy unmount (umount -l) of the CIFS to get Xorg back to normal. What I would expect would be for the IP not to be released when the DHCP server is unreachable. What I would expect is for X Windows to continue to function as expected even though this arbitrary mount on the file system is not functioning. I used network-manager as the package because it's step one of two faults that are reported here. I have no idea which package would be appropriate for the second fault. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/578985/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp