Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> writes: > On Monday 27 May 2019 03:42:52 pm Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > >> Quoting Gene Heskett (2019-05-27 19:42:46) >> >> > On Monday 27 May 2019 03:46:00 am Curt wrote: >> > > On 2019-05-27, <to...@tuxteam.de> <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: >> > > > If Network Manager is giving you grief, please go bark up /that/ >> > > > tree (I can't say much about N-M, because I banned it from my >> > > > boxes about ten years ago: I was at a customer's, in his LAN via >> > > > an Ethernet, when N-M suddenly saw a WLAN out there, out the >> > > > window and said "oh, let's go online over there" and obliterated >> > > > my network setting in favor of some seedy captive portal. That >> > > > was when I decided that N-M and me, we aren't made for each >> > > > other). >> > > >> > > This is a grave bug. I suppose we can assume from your description >> > > that the seedier the wifi portal, the more likely it is to >> > > spontaneously occur, despite any and all user configuration or >> > > intervention. >> > >> > This would appear to be more common, but as far as filing a bug >> > report, I logged in to do something in 2015, creating a new account >> > at the time, so now it refuses to let me in because the username >> > content rules have been changed and my username is now invalid. And >> > because it knows my email address, it won't let me create a new >> > account. So its the classic chicken v egg. I am locked out, so I >> > rant on this list. >> >> Account? You need no account to report bugs in Debian: >> https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting >> > So that indicates I should have apt install reportbug, so I did. > Configured it on 1st run. then became me and ran it again. It never > heard of NetworkManager or Network-Manager. WTH?
Debian package names are all lower case, and for better or worse the package management software is case-sensitive. snowball:532$ reportbug Please enter the name of the package in which you have found a problem, or type 'other' to report a more general problem. If you don't know what package the bug is in, please contact debian-user@lists.debian.org for assistance. > network-manager *** Welcome to reportbug. Use ? for help at prompts. *** Note: bug reports are publicly archived (including the email address of the submitter). Detected character set: UTF-8 Please change your locale if this is incorrect. Using 'Joe Pfeiffer <jos...@pfeifferfamily.net>' as your from address. Getting status for network-manager... Checking for newer versions at madison... Your version (1.14.6-2) of network-manager appears to be out of date. The following newer release(s) are available in the Debian archive: experimental: 1.18.0-1 Please try to verify if the bug you are about to report is already addressed by these releases. Do you still want to file a report [y|N|q|?]? (at which point I entered a ^C since I didn't actually want to report a bug)