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

[TSUCHIYA Masatoshi]

Hi,

>> On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 06:37:27 +0100
>> biebl at debian.org (Michael Biebl) said as follows:

>> 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?

Exactly, the loopback device exists, but, it has no correct address as
follows:

$ /sbin/ifconfig lo
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          LOOPBACK  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

Therefore, generic programs does not work because they expect the
loopback address has the address 127.0.0.1.

>> 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.

I attached it at the end of this message.

Regards,

-- 
TSUCHIYA Masatoshi
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