** Description changed: - Binary package hint: ifupdown + 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 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. + 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 - (following this will turn off DHCP on eth0 and make it unmanaged and people will wonder why NetworkManager is not working) + 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.
-- 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 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
