[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#527965: network-manager: Virtual interface in /etc/network/interfaces confuse NetworkManager

[Jö Fahlke]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.7.1-1
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software

Since the update to NetworkManager 0.7 all hell broke loose.  This is my
/etc/network/interfaces:
======================================================================
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto planets
iface planets inet static
    address 192.168.28.2
    netmask 255.255.255.0

auto vmnet
iface vmnet inet static
    address 192.168.29.1
    netmask 255.255.255.0
    vde2-switch -
#    vde2-switch -t vmnet
======================================================================

This is /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf:
======================================================================
[main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile

[ifupdown]
managed=false
======================================================================

With this settings, NetworkManager stopped the interface "planets".  This
caused my vpn-setup (tinc) to fail ("breaks unrelated software").  It then
went ahead to configure "eth0" with the settings for "planets".  My
expectation was that "eth0" would be configured using DHCP, like in previous
versions of NetworkManager.

nm-applet shows two connections: "Ifupdown (vmnet)" and "Ifupdown (planets)".

Adding a per-user connection "eth0(dhcp)", which configures "eth0" using DHCP
works, but NetworkManager switches back to "Ifupdown (planets)" as soon as I
logout.  Adding "eth0(dhcp)" system-wide ("Available to all users") does not
work: when I click "Apply..." nothing happens and the window "Editing
eth0(dhcp)" stays open.

Finally a question: is there a way to restore the old behaviour of having at
max one connection held open by NetworkManager?  Trying to configure both
"eth0" and "wlan0" will usually break my internet connection for me, depending
on whether wired or wireless network is up first.  

Thanks,
Jö.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing-proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-1-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser      3.110                       add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus         1.2.12-1                    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  dhcp3-client 3.1.1-6                     DHCP client
ii  hal          0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-2 Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  ifupdown     0.6.8+nmu1                  high level tools to configure netw
ii  libc6        2.9-4                       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3  1.2.12-1                    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib 0.80-4                      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11  1.4.4-2                     LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0 2.20.0-2                    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnutls26  2.6.4-2                     the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgpg-error 1.6-1                       library for common error values an
ii  libhal1      0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-2 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libnl1       1.1-5                       library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-glib0  0.7.1-1                     network management framework (GLib
ii  libnm-util1  0.7.1-1                     network management framework (shar
ii  libpolkit-db 0.9-3                       library for accessing PolicyKit vi
ii  libpolkit2   0.9-3                       library for accessing PolicyKit
ii  libtasn1-3   1.8-1                       Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libuuid1     1.41.3-1                    universally unique id library
ii  lsb-base     3.2-22                      Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  wpasupplican 0.6.9-2                     client support for WPA and WPA2 (I
ii  zlib1g       1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13           compression library - runtime

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  dnsmasq-base               2.47-3        A small caching DNS proxy and DHCP
ii  iptables                   1.4.3.2-2     administration tools for packet fi
ii  network-manager-gnome      0.7.1-1       network management framework (GNOM
ii  policykit                  0.9-3         framework for managing administrat
ii  ppp                        2.4.4rel-10.1 Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - da

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
ii  avahi-autoipd                 0.6.24-3   Avahi IPv4LL network address confi

-- no debconf information

-- 
http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/te/17529/1.html
"Wer nichts zu verbergen hat, kann auch seine echte Emailadresse
angeben." -- Luke321 im Telepolis-Forum
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: Digital signature
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-utopia-maintainers/attachments/20090509/ff99c212/attachment.pgp>