[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#645483: network-manager: doesn't bring up networking during boot

[Arthur de Jong]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.9.0-2
Severity: important

NetworkManager was just installed as a Gnome dependency and it didn't
correctly migrate settings from /etc/network/interfaces. The file before
the package was installed:

auto lo eth0
iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet dhcp

And after:

auto lo eth0
iface lo inet loopback
#NetworkManager#iface eth0 inet dhcp

The problem is that now networking is not available during booting which
is required for NFS-mounted home directories and LDAP user accounts.

Logging in as root on the console, removing the #NetworkManager# comment
and rebooting seems to fix things.

Is this the correct approach (I've seen NetworkManager tell applications
that they should be operating in offline mode in the past)? Is there a
way to prevent NetworkManager from doing this before it's installed (I'd
hate to go round all systems in our network to manually fix each and
every one)?

Thanks.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113    
ii  dbus                   1.4.16-1 
ii  isc-dhcp-client        4.2.2-1  
ii  libc6                  2.13-21  
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.4.16-1 
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.98-1   
ii  libgcrypt11            1.5.0-3  
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.28.6-4 
ii  libgnutls26            2.12.11-1
ii  libgudev-1.0-0         172-1    
ii  libnl1                 1.1-7    
ii  libnm-glib4            0.9.0-2  
ii  libnm-util2            0.9.0-2  
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.102-1  
ii  libuuid1               2.19.1-5 
ii  lsb-base               3.2-28   
ii  udev                   172-1    
ii  wpasupplicant          0.7.3-5  

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  dnsmasq-base  2.58-3  
ii  iptables      1.4.12-1
ii  modemmanager  0.5-1   
ii  policykit-1   0.102-1 
ii  ppp           2.4.5-5 

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
pn  avahi-autoipd  <none>

-- 
-- arthur - adejong at debian.org - http://people.debian.org/~adejong --
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