Package: debian-installer Version: stable 20230607 amd64 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: aus...@themosses.org
Hello debian-installer maintainers, When installing Debian with the graphical installer from the DVD ISO, one of the steps during the installer prompts users to connect to a network to retrieve up to date packages. Later in the installer, the user is prompted to choose additional packages such as the GNOME desktop environment. Once the install is complete, the user will boot in to the newly installed system and GNOME's network indicator will show no network connectivity even though they configured such during the install and the network is likely up. This appears to be due to the installer configuring ifupdown and placing the selected interface in /etc/network/interfaces. GNOME's graphical settings application provides a front end for NetworkManager and as such, will not display the interface used during the installer. To display the interface in GNOME Settings, a user needs to remove the interface from /etc/network/interfaces. Without knowing why the network is not displayed in the graphical interface, users will be confused as to why they can browse the web or perform other network tasks even though the GUI does not indicate a network connection. This may also present a problem especially for wireless cards if a user needs to connect to a new wireless network but cannot see their wireless card from the GUI. One of the fixes may be to clean /etc/networks/interfaces after the installation if a user has selected to install GNOME, KDE, or any desktop environment which provides a graphical front end for NetworkManager. Thank you for taking the time to read this bug report. -Austin -- System Information: Debian Release: 12.0 APT prefers stable-security APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled