Bug#529516: Network-admin forgets the Location on reboot

[Erik Blake]

  Having similar problems. I have one physical interface on my debian 
box (running fully-updated system), plus loopback. On reboot, the 
computer can operate as a file server to remote machines, but any access 
to internet services (email, web) from the debian box fails. When you 
run network-admin, the "location" box is blank. Selecting the dropdown 
menu populates the "Location" box with the one (and only) configured 
connection and then things work OK (until the next reboot).

This seems really weird.