Ubuntu
network-manager package

loosing network connection on upgrade of network-manager

Bug #105393 reported by LGB [Gábor Lénárt]
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network-manager (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Just upgraded network-manager to 0.6.4-6ubuntu5 on an i386 box through a remote ssh connection, and network-manager seems to unconfigure my eth0 interface which is set up by /etc/network/interfaces (iface eth0 inet static). I think this is very dangerous behaviour since this move made my machine off-line, no upgrade should make a move like this at least without a big fat warning. Also, at home my AMD64 box lost its IP though it has DHCP configured IP from the wireless router.

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Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen) wrote :

Yes, this is an unfortunate problem, but it should only affect people running feisty and is easily fixed with a restart of the networking.

Changed in network-manager:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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steckelfisch (braas-steckelfisch) wrote :

seems like a duplicate of Bug #92299.

A network restart doed not (always) solve this problem

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LGB [Gábor Lénárt] (lgb) wrote :

Well nice, but how can I restart networking, if I'm 100km away from the computer and it shuts its NIC down? :) Seriously, it's not a big deal if it's a single problem of THIS upgrade (since feisty is not stable anyway), however I think it is a very big and dangerous problem if it may occur in the furure as well, when ubuntu 7.04 is released and eg a security upgrade of network-manager come out. My reason of reporting this is the latter case and not the first one, which should be accepted because of usage a distro in development phase.

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alexoverton (alex-overton) wrote :

I have similar problems , Just done the full upgrade to latest , Now for my sins I have lost my touch pad,wireless internet connection,and will not even run wired connection . Can not connect using any method ! Everything was working before the upgrade no problems . Have tried to un-install network manager but this has not helped . Packard bell laptop easynote built-in wireless and ethernet .I am a newbie (sorry) if you need config files etc please provide commands for console and meathod to pass on information you may need . I have been reading the posts but so far have not found a solution to problem .Please help ....don't want to fire up the old windows box.........errrrr

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alexoverton (alex-overton) wrote :

I have just done a cold reboot on the laptop, after uninistalling network manager. Networking now works . It must be something to do with the network manager with my type of laptop . Did the same upgrade on my main PC and had no problems with network manager - In fact it gives it a more userfriendly system when it works ! Look forward to seeing this work in the future but will keep the network manager uninstalled on laptop until I read/hear otherwise . Would still appreciate some ideas to get my mouse pad working if anyone has a moment please .

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