[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#504918: [Debian Wiki] Update of "NewInLenny" : Upgrade over SSH issue

[Michael Biebl]

Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
> severity 504918 grave
> --
> 
> [BCC Stuart Prescott: "stuart+debian AT nanonanonano net"]
> 
> Hello Stuart,
> 
> (I hope you are the right "Stuart")
> 
> You added the following comment on the wiki page:
> 
> On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 18:27 +0000, Debian Wiki wrote:
>> The following page has been changed by StuartPrescott:
> [..]
>> +  * Upgrading over ssh when the connection is managed by NetworkManager can 
>> lead the upgrade failing/hanging when the NetworkManager service is restarted.
>> If you are lucky, the ssh connection will not drop out; if you are unlucky, 
>> the ssh connection will drop out and at the next interactive point in the 
>> upgrade (e.g. dpkg "replace this file" or debconf) the entire upgrade is 
>> left in a horrible state.
> 

Two points:
- If you have setup a static ip, say for eth0, via /etc/network/interfaces, NM
should not manage eth0 and therefore not terminate the connection.
- If you use DHCP and NM is managing the interface, it should bring up the
device again, when it is successfully restarted.

Could you please send me the contents of /etc/network/interfaces.
Now that you have upgraded to lenny, what happens if you restart it via
/etc/init.d/network-manager?
The syslog would also be interesting:
grep NetworkManager /var/log/syslog

Cheers,
Michael


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