[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#970500: network-manager does not start at boot

[Hans-J. Ullrich]

Package: network-manager
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

as debian forces me to uninstall wicd, I had to change to network-manager. After installation and a fresh reboot, I discovered, that network-manager is not been started at boot.

My examination showed, that the file /etc/init.d/network-manager does not exist. Furthermore I tried to get systemd start network-manager automatically started. Also the command
systemctl enable NetworkManger did not work. At last I discovered, that the command service NetworkManager start did work, but only until next reboot. 

Of course I could make an entry in one of the files in /etc/rc.local, however, that is just a workaround, no solution.

Hope, this bug will be soon fixed, as there is no other easy alternative to easy wicd (which is now gone in debian).

Best regards

Hans

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.8.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                3.118
ii  dbus                   1.12.20-1
ii  init-system-helpers    1.58
ii  libaudit1              1:2.8.5-3+b1
ii  libbluetooth3          5.50-1.2
ii  libc6                  2.31-3
ii  libcurl3-gnutls        7.72.0-1
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.66.0-1
ii  libgnutls30            3.6.14-2+b1
ii  libjansson4            2.13.1-1
ii  libmm-glib0            1.14.2-0.1
pn  libndp0                <none>
ii  libnewt0.52            0.52.21-4+b1
ii  libnm0                 1.26.2-1
ii  libpam-systemd         246.5-1
ii  libpolkit-agent-1-0    0.105-29
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.105-29
ii  libpsl5                0.21.0-1.1
pn  libreadline7           <none>
ii  libreadline8           8.0-4
ii  libselinux1            3.1-2
ii  libsystemd0            246.5-1
pn  libteamdctl0           <none>
ii  libudev1               246.5-1
ii  libuuid1               2.36-3
ii  lsb-base               11.1.0
ii  policykit-1            0.105-29
ii  udev                   246.5-1
ii  wpasupplicant          2:2.9.0-15

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  crda                         4.14+git20191112.9856751-1
ii  dnsmasq-base [dnsmasq-base]  2.82-1
ii  iptables                     1.8.5-3
ii  isc-dhcp-client              4.4.1-2.1+b2
ii  modemmanager                 1.14.2-0.1
ii  ppp                          2.4.7-2+4.1+deb10u1+b1

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
ii  isc-dhcp-client  4.4.1-2.1+b2
pn  libteam-utils    <none>