[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#530024: eth0 Wired interface not managed (on squeeze install/upgrade).

[Frank Lin PIAT]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.7.1-1
Severity: important

The wired network interface isn't managed on a default system (>=squeeze).

As far as i understand, this is because:

On a regular Debian system, the file /etc/network/interfaces contains
| allow-hotplug eth0
| iface eth0 inet dhcp

Also, /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf contains:
| [main]
| plugins=ifupdown,keyfile
| 
| [ifupdown]
| managed=false

I don't know if the right way to solve the issue is to:
 1. comment-out the [eth0] entry in /e/n/interfaces
or
 2. set "managed=true" in nm-system-settings.conf
    (an kill nm-system-settings or reboot)

Note regarding #1: Every user that upgrade their system from lenny to
   squeeze will face this bug. Do you think it's possible to address
   this problem (dispaying note or whatever).

Thanks,

Franklin

--

Meanwhile, I'll document this behaviour in 
 http://wiki.debian.org/NetworkManager

For reference, syslog reports:

NetworkManager: <info>  starting...
NetworkManager: <info>  (eth0): new Ethernet device (driver: 'e1000e')
NetworkManager: <info>  (eth0): exported as
/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_1a_6b_38_52_e4
NetworkManager: <info>  Trying to start the system settings daemon...
nm-system-settings:    SCPlugin-Ifupdown: init!
nm-system-settings:    SCPlugin-Ifupdown: update_system_hostname
nm-system-settings:    SCPluginIfupdown: guessed connection type (eth0)
= 802-3-ethernet
nm-system-settings:    SCPlugin-Ifupdown:
update_connection_setting_from_if_block: name:eth0, type:802-3-ethernet,
autoconnect:0, id:Ifupdown (eth0), uuid:
681b428f-0000-0000-0000-000001040000
nm-system-settings:    SCPluginIfupdown: management mode: unmanaged
nm-system-settings:    SCPlugin-Ifupdown: devices added (udi:
/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_1a_6b_38_52_e4, iface: eth0)
nm-system-settings:    Ifupdown: get unmanaged devices count: 1


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.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  2.6.6-1                     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:
pn  dnsmasq-base                  <none>     (no description available)
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
pn  ppp                           <none>     (no description available)

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
ii  avahi-autoipd                 0.6.25-1   Avahi IPv4LL network address confi

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