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ifupdown package

Add a warning to the interfaces file that interfaces present in this file won't be managed by network-manager

Bug #381586 reported by Tarnay Kálmán
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ifupdown (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Undecided
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Nominated for Lucid by Tarnay Kálmán

Bug Description

There are a lot of people seeking help, because they followed some old how-to and caused their network interfaces to became unmanaged. And they will have no idea why the pretty GUI(NetworkManager) has stopped working.

A warning at the top of /etc/network/interfaces could help this situation:

Example of such a how-to: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ADSLPPPoE
For example this how-to instruct them to add eth0 to the "interfaces" file and as a result it becomes unmanaged.

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Tarnay Kálmán (tarnay-kalman)
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Tarnay Kálmán (tarnay-kalman)
description: updated
Tarnay Kálmán (tarnay-kalman)
description: updated
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Stéphane Graber (stgraber) wrote :

I haven't seen reports of such issues on new installs and updating /etc/network/interfaces on existing installs is out of the question. I think it'd have probably been a good idea to indeed do that change when we switched to Network Manager for the desktop but don't think it's worth the trouble doing it now (4 years later).

Changed in ifupdown (Ubuntu):
status: New → Won't Fix
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