[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#643687: Bug#643687: After upgrade to 0.9, the "Auto eth0" connection went away

[Josh Triplett]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 09:06:08AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> On 28.09.2011 19:23, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > Package: network-manager
> > Version: 0.9.0-2
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > [I don't know if this bug exists in network-manager or
> > network-manager-gnome, but I suspect the former so I've filed it here.
> > Please feel free to reassign.]
> > 
> > Right around the time I upgraded to NetworkManager 0.9, the "Auto eth0"
> > connection seems to have disappeared, and NetworkManager stopped
> > automatically connecting to wired networks.  I had to explicitly create
> > a new "Wired" network for NM to use.
> 
> NM only creates such a virtual "Auto eth0" configuration if no other
> ethernet type configuration ([802-3-ethernet]) exists. Did you have
> pre-existing connection configurations?

No, I didn't.

> Could you grep for 802-3-ethernet in
> /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections respectively the the output of
> "nmcli con".

I had no system connections, Ethernet or otherwise.

> Did you maybe have an old DSL configuration?

No.

- Josh Triplett