[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#606268: now ignores interfaces configured by d-i

[Joey Hess]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.8.1-6
Severity: serious
Tags: d-i

On upgrading to this version network manager stopped managing
my wireless interface and my laptop's network was taken down.

/etc/network/interfaces contains a standard stanza as setup by d-i
for a wireless interface:

# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
        # wireless-* options are implemented by the wireless-tools package
        wireless-mode managed
	wireless-essid any

/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf contained managed=false. Setting
managed=true works around the problem.

Unfortunatly the /etc/network/interfaces munger introduced to fix
#530024 was not a sufficient fix. It doesn't munge the above stanza at all
when I run it by hand, due to the wireless-mode and wireless-essid lines.

So, bug #569215 has basically been all that has been keeping wireless
and some other networks managed by network-manager on newly installed
and upgraded systems, for the past 6+ months..

One approach would be for for /usr/lib/NetworkManager/ifblacklist_migrate.sh
to convert stanzas containing any of these lines which d-i can include:

	wireless-mode managed
	wireless-essid *
	wireless-key1 *
	hostname *

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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (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/dash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                      3.112+nmu2  add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                         1.2.24-3    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  isc-dhcp-client              4.1.1-P1-15 ISC DHCP client
ii  libc6                        2.11.2-7    Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdbus-1-3                  1.2.24-3    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2             0.88-2      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11                  1.4.5-2     LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.24.2-1    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnutls26                  2.8.6-1     the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgudev-1.0-0               164-2       GObject-based wrapper library for 
ii  libnl1                       1.1-6       library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-glib2                  0.8.1-6     network management framework (GLib
ii  libnm-util1                  0.8.1-6     network management framework (shar
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0        0.96-4      PolicyKit Authorization API
ii  libuuid1                     2.17.2-3.3  Universally Unique ID library
ii  lsb-base                     3.2-26      Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  udev                         164-2       /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  wpasupplicant                0.6.10-2.1  client support for WPA and WPA2 (I

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  dns 2.55-2+b1                            A small caching DNS proxy and DHCP
ii  ipt 1.4.10-1                             administration tools for packet fi
ii  mod 0.4+git.20100624t180933.6e79d15-1+b1 D-Bus service for managing modems
ii  pol 0.96-4                               framework for managing administrat
ii  ppp 2.4.5-4                              Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - da

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
ii  avahi-autoipd                 0.6.27-3   Avahi IPv4LL network address confi

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf changed [not included]

-- no debconf information

-- 
see shy jo
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