[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#755202: NetworkManager creates broken eth0 connection while booting

[Nathaniel Beaver]

I'm also able to reliably reproduce this. I always see avahi-autoipd 
processes like these pop up when the problem occurs:

$  ps aux | grep avahi-autoipd
USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
avahi-a+ 31710  0.0  0.0   2440   816 ?        S    10:15   0:00 
avahi-autoipd: [eth0] bound 169.254.6.245
root     31711  0.0  0.0   2204   296 ?        S    10:15   0:00 
avahi-autoipd: [eth0] callout dispatcher

They disappear when I restart network manager.

$ sudo /etc/init.d/network-manager restart

But then they come back a few minutes later.

I haven't gotten any of the workarounds to resolve the issue so far.

Cheers,

Nathaniel Beaver

On 10/11/2014 02:41 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 12:48:25AM +0200, Tobias Hansen wrote:
>> Control: severity -1 serious
>>
>> I'm also having this problem and setting AVAHI_DAEMON_DETECT_LOCAL=0
>> didn't help in my case. I also have this eth0:avahi entry in ifconfig.
>> Raising severity since we really don't want to have this bug in a release.
>
> Same here: it is indeed avahi related (I invariably get a 169.254.7.253
> address) but AVAHI_DAEMON_DETECT_LOCAL=0 doesn't help. I can now
> reproduce it reliably at each suspend/resume cycle of my laptop.
> Immediately after resume I connect properly to the local wi-fi then,
> after 1-2 minutes, a new eth0 kicks in and kill the network. Opening the
> settings panel and switching of the "wired" connection fixes the
> problem, until the next suspend/resume cycle.
>
> FWIW, I agree with your severity assessment.
>
> Cheers.
>