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
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Add a warning to the interfaces file that interfaces present in this file won't
be managed by network-manager
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/381586
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+ 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.
- There are
** Description changed:
Binary package hint: ifupdown
There are a lot of people seeking help, because they followed some old how
to and their network interfaces became unmanaged.
A warning at the top of /etc/network/interfaces could help this situation.
Example of such a how to:
