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

[Pat Hooper]

Hi all,

I've been having this problem with two laptops, and continue to have
the problem.

I don't know much about networking, but I managed to "fix" the problem
by editting "/etc/default/avahi-daemon" so that it reads:
AVAHI_DAEMON_DETECT_LOCAL=0
(originally it had a 1 rather than a 0). Then I restarted my computer
(though maybe restarting networking is sufficent). Note: I am not sure
what damage I am doing, since I haven't tested eth0 since doing this.
I have only been using wifi.

I stumbled on this because when I am having the problem with extra
non-working wired interfaces, my output of "ifconfig" read:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr dc:0e:a1:cd:b7:52
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

eth0:avahi Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr dc:0e:a1:cd:b7:52
          inet addr:169.254.9.46  Bcast:169.254.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:6129 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:6129 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:569470 (556.1 KiB)  TX bytes:569470 (556.1 KiB)

virbr0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 8e:42:0e:fe:dd:e9
          inet addr:192.168.122.1  Bcast:192.168.122.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 9c:b7:0d:98:ac:7f
          inet addr:146.96.26.84  Bcast:146.96.31.255  Mask:255.255.248.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::9eb7:dff:fe98:ac7f/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:25327 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:17675 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:29927588 (28.5 MiB)  TX bytes:4792503 (4.5 MiB)


The lines for eth0:avahi only appear when I am having this problem. I
hope this helps to arrive at a solution.

Best,
Pat