[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#747895: ifupdown: Upgrade breaks dual IPv4/IPv6 configuration

[Andrew Benham]

On 13/05/14 15:12, Andrew Shadura wrote:
> Control: reassign -1 avahi-daemon
> Control: retitle -1 if-up.d script of avahi-daemon breaks static
> network configuration
> 
> Hello,
> 
> On 13 May 2014 16:03, Andrew Benham <adsb at adsb.co.uk> wrote:
>> run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-up.d/avahi-daemon
>> run-parts: /etc/network/if-up.d/avahi-daemon exited with return code 1
>> run-parts --exit-on-error --verbose /etc/network/if-up.d
>> Failed to bring up eth0.
> 
>> In each case only one address family is configured, whereas
>> up until last week both address families were configured (with
>> the IPv4 stanza appearing before the IPv6 stanza).
>> I notice that there's a "Failed to bring up eth0" message
>> in both cases - I don't know whether this is because the
>> interface already existed at the time of running the scripts,
>> or whether this is indicative of the problem.
> 
> This is a bug in if-up.d script of avahi-daemon. Meanwhile I suggest
> you to add "exit 0" to the end of it.

Thanks for the rapid reply.  That didn't quite do the job, but putting
"exit 0" at the start of that script (I neither need nor want avahi on
my machines) solved the problem.  I've now forcefully purged the
avahi-daemon package from the machine :-)

You may consider this bug report closed fixed.

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