Bug#456526: gnome-system-tools: network setting static ip address doesn't work

[Daniele (Mastro)]

Package: gnome-system-tools
Version: 2.14.0-3
Severity: important

Open Network manager and try to set a static ip address for your LAN
network device. it will result in a dhcp anyway

steps:
1) open network (System -> Administration -> Networks)
2) set a static DNS (say 192.168.1.2) and some DNS
3) clik ok
4) verify your network doesn't have that IP and doesn't use the DNS you
provided! It use dhcp ones

work around:
edit /etc/network/interfaces

# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth1
iface eth1 inet static
address 192.168.1.2
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1

auto eth1

as you see there's an "auto eth1" that shouldn't be there!
simply remove or comment it

then open /etc/resolv.conf and manually set your DNS

issue the command ifdown eth1 && ifup eth1

or use whatever ethX you have

the bug is "important" becouse people who don't know how to manually set
their network will be puzzled by this behavior and will not know what to
do! For this people the gnome-system-tools network manager is useless

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-1-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-system-tools depends on:
ii  gconf2                  2.20.1-1         GNOME configuration
database syste
ii  libart-2.0-2            2.3.19-3         Library of functions for 2D
graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0             1.20.0-1         The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudiofile0           0.2.6-7          Open-source version of
SGI's audio
ii  libavahi-client3        0.6.21-4         Avahi client library
ii  libavahi-common3        0.6.21-4         Avahi common library
ii  libavahi-glib1          0.6.21-4         Avahi glib integration library
ii  libbonobo2-0            2.20.1-1         Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0          2.20.0-1         The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                   2.7-3            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2               1.4.10-1+lenny2  The Cairo 2D vector
graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3             1.1.1-3          simple interprocess
messaging syst
ii  libesd-alsa0 [libesd0]  0.2.36-3         Enlightened Sound Daemon
(ALSA) -
ii  libfontconfig1          2.4.2-1.2        generic font configuration
library
ii  libfreetype6            2.3.5-1+b1       FreeType 2 font engine,
shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4             2.20.1-1         GNOME configuration
database syste
ii  libgcrypt11             1.2.4-2          LGPL Crypto library -
runtime libr
ii  libglade2-0             1:2.6.2-1        library to load .glade
files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.14.3-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0       2.20.2-1         GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0             2.20.1.1-1       The GNOME 2 library -
runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0       2.20.1.1-1       A powerful object-oriented
display
ii  libgnomeui-0            2.20.1.1-1       The GNOME 2 libraries (User
Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0          1:2.20.1-1       GNOME Virtual File System
(runtime
ii  libgnutls13             2.0.4-1          the GNU TLS library -
runtime libr
ii  libgpg-error0           1.4-2            library for common error
values an
ii  libgtk2.0-0             2.12.1-1         The GTK+ graphical user
interface
ii  libice6                 2:1.0.4-1        X11 Inter-Client Exchange
library
ii  libjpeg62               6b-14            The Independent JPEG
Group's JPEG
ii  libnautilus-extension1  2.18.3-3         libraries for nautilus
components
ii  liborbit2               1:2.14.7-0.1     libraries for ORBit2 - a
CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0           1.18.3-1         Layout and rendering of
internatio
ii  libpng12-0              1.2.15~beta5-3   PNG library - runtime
ii  libpopt0                1.10-3           lib for parsing cmdline
parameters
ii  libsm6                  2:1.0.3-1+b1     X11 Session Management library
ii  libtasn1-3              1.1-1            Manage ASN.1 structures
(runtime)
ii  libx11-6                2:1.0.3-7        X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1             1:1.1.9-1        X cursor management library
ii  libxext6                1:1.0.3-2        X11 miscellaneous extension
librar
ii  libxfixes3              1:4.0.3-2        X11 miscellaneous 'fixes'
extensio
ii  libxi6                  2:1.1.3-1        X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1            1:1.0.2-1        X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxml2                 2.6.30.dfsg-3    GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2              2:1.2.2-1        X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1             1:0.9.4-1        X Rendering Extension
client libra
ii  perl                    5.8.8-12         Larry Wall's Practical
Extraction
ii  system-tools-backends   1.4.2-5          System Tools to manage
computer co
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-7 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages gnome-system-tools recommends:
ii  gksu                          2.0.0-5    graphical frontend to su
ii  gnome-control-center          1:2.18.1-1 utilities to configure the
GNOME d

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