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

[Michael Biebl]

Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> 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.

It's the same underlying issue.

What has changed though between 0.6 and 0.7 is the way, how NM determines when
to mark a device managed or unmanaged (see the 0.6 README.Debian and the new
README.Debian).

That's why you see this "regression" with 0.7.
(It actually isn't a regression, as you can now controll more easily when to
mark a device managed/unmanaged)

> 
>> 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,


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