[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#612247: Bug#612247: network-manager: network-manager breaks /etc/network/interfaces when upgrading from lenny to squeeze

[Michael Biebl]

On 07.02.2011 05:48, TSUCHIYA Masatoshi wrote:
> Package: network-manager
> Version: 0.8.1-6
> Severity: serious
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I had the working /etc/network/interfaces file for lenny:
> 
>     auto lo
>     iface lo inet loopback
>     allow-hotplug eth0
>     iface eth0 inet dhcp
>     iface eth0-home inet static
> 	address 123.123.123.123
> 	netmask 255.255.255.0
> 	gateway 123.123.123.1
> 	dns-nameservers 123.123.123.1
> 
> It was broken by network-manager when upgrading from lenny to squeeze as
> follows:
> 
>     auto lo
>     iface lo inet loopback
>     allow-hotplug eth0
>     #NetworkManager#iface eth0 inet dhcp
>     #NetworkManager#iface eth0-home inet static
> 	address 123.123.123.123
> 	netmask 255.255.255.0
> 	gateway 123.123.123.1
> 	dns-nameservers 123.123.123.1
> 
> This causes that a loopback device is disappeared for squeeze system,
> because this /etc/network/interfaces file is syntactically broken.

If network-manager is installed, it will bring up the loopback device on it's
own. Or do you have network-manager installed but disabled from starting?

> I believe that the network-manager postinst script must consider
> continuous lines in the /etc/network/interfaces file.

can you send me an exact copy of the file (including the backup file
/etc/network/interfaces.bak-0) please.

thanks

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