[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#755202: network-manager: keeps creating and using new connection "eth0" that does not work

[Felix C. Stegerman]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.9.10.0-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

NetworkManager has started creating a new wired connection "eth0"
after/during boot; this connection has ipv4 (and ipv6) disabled, and
thus provides no connectivity.  I can manually select my original
wired connection (standard dhcp) in gnome3 (or using nmcli), but it
keeps creating the "eth0" interface and using it after restarting.

* Purging and re-installing NM does not help.
* Modifying the "eth0" connection to enable ipv4 or creating a new
  connection named "eth0" that has ipv4 enabled does not help -- NM
  will simply create another connection named "eth0" and use that.
* /var/log/syslog did not seem to include anything useful.

I really have no idea what's going on here.  I hope someone else does.
Thanks.

- Felix


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113+nmu3
ii  dbus                   1.8.6-1
ii  init-system-helpers    1.19
ii  isc-dhcp-client        4.3.0+dfsg-1
ii  libc6                  2.19-7
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.8.6-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.102-1
ii  libgcrypt11            1.5.3-4
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.40.0-3
ii  libgnutls-deb0-28      3.2.15-3
ii  libgudev-1.0-0         208-6
ii  libmm-glib0            1.2.0-1
ii  libndp0                1.3-1
ii  libnewt0.52            0.52.17-1
ii  libnl-3-200            3.2.24-2
ii  libnl-genl-3-200       3.2.24-2
ii  libnl-route-3-200      3.2.24-2
ii  libnm-glib4            0.9.10.0-1
ii  libnm-util2            0.9.10.0-1
ii  libpam-systemd         208-6
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.105-6
ii  libreadline6           6.3-6
ii  libsoup2.4-1           2.46.0-2
ii  libsystemd-daemon0     208-6
ii  libsystemd-login0      208-6
ii  libuuid1               2.20.1-5.8
ii  lsb-base               4.1+Debian13
ii  policykit-1            0.105-6
ii  udev                   208-6
ii  wpasupplicant          1.1-1

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  crda          1.1.2-1
ii  dnsmasq-base  2.71-1
ii  iptables      1.4.21-2
ii  modemmanager  1.2.0-1
ii  ppp           2.4.6-2

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

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