[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 debian.org> (17/12/2008):
> That's a known issue. For unmanaged devices, NM assumes the state to
> be offline.  I'm merging this with the existing bug reports.
> 
> See e.g. #491826 for more info.

Hmm, OK. But that bug has been reported against 0.6.6-2 and previous
versions (unstable's) were working fine for me, so (IMHO) that looks
like a regression from previous versions.

> You need to restart the system settings service (see the README.Debian
> file I referring to in my previous email [1])
> Asudo killall nm-system-settings
> 
> After that, NM should pick up you eth0 interface.

FWIW, it didn't. (I checked the daemon restarted, and invoke-rc.d
restarted network-manager as well afterwards.)

> An alternative is to configure
>  eth0 via /e/n/i and set
> 
> [ifupdown]
> managed=true

That did the trick, thanks.

Cheers,
-- 
Cyril Brulebois
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