[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#509006: network-manager: Loses wired connection upon upgrade (from 0.6.6-2+b1 to 0.7.0~svn4191-1)

[Cyril Brulebois]

Michael Biebl <biebl at teco.edu> (17/12/2008):
> > And nm-applet reports the wired network is unsupported.
>                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^
> It says unmanaged, not unsupported.
> Unmanaged means, that you have configured that device in /etc/network/interfaces

OK, got caught by l10n: the French translation is ambiguous, since
“n'est pas gérée” can be understood both ways; and it's usual to do
“supported” → “géré” rather than “supporté” (which is considered as an
anglicism).

> > Let me know if I can send you more input, or test other versions (source
> > packages are OK).
> 
> Could you describe in more detail, what your actual problem is?

It's actually more subtle than I thought: nm reports that there's no
connection, so liferea, epiphany, etc. went in disconnected mode; since
I called “dhclient eth0”, I've got a connection back. To check nm does
its job, I down'd the interface (“ifconfig eth0 down”), and restarted
nm, but nm doesn't look like wanting to re-up it.

I could try after a fresh restart if you like, but it really sounds like
nm isn't considering the interface.

> What does your /e/n/i look like? Do you have other network interfaces
> (other than eth0) which are managed by NM?

,--
| auto lo
| iface lo inet loopback
| auto eth0
| iface eth0 inet dhcp
`--

I also tried to remove all eth0 references, and restart nm, but it's not
going any better (nm-tool reports exactly the same as in my initial
report).

FWIW (since network drivers are concerned), I'm using a mailine kernel
(2.6.28-rc7-kibi-00200-gf7a8db8).

Cheers,
-- 
Cyril Brulebois
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