On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 09:26:17PM -0000, Steffen H. wrote: > I had an up-to-date Ubuntu 11.10 workstation.
> I recently received an update that required a 'restart' (aka reboot - new > kernel). I put off the reboot while working away - for a week or so. So, > as has happened each time I've had to 'restart' (aka reboot for a new > kernel), I once again watched in disgust as my /etc/resolv.conf file got > blown away. The Ubuntu bug tracker is a place for users to report bugs and work with developers to resolve them. You have followed up to an existing bug report without subscribing to it, providing only a vague description of the problem ("something" overwrote /etc/resolv.conf) and giving no reason to think your message is related to this closed bug report. You should not expect the Ubuntu developers to take any action in response to such a message. > Is anyone EVER going to allow an Ubuntu system administrator to > configure their networking set up via some /etc file contents. Is some > GUI now mandatory? This has worked flawlessly for the vast majority of Ubuntu users since Ubuntu's inception. > As others have noted, I now find that ifdown/ifup works - albeit only > once I conform to the Ubuntu way and put a dns-nameservers directive > into the eth0 stanza in /etc/network/interfaces. This sounds like you did have resolvconf installed. Resolvconf has never been part of a standard Ubuntu install prior to 12.04, was unmaintained in the Ubuntu archive and was in a known-broken state (as this and other bug reports attest). The obvious solution if you aren't happy with the output of resolvconf, a package which exists for the *sole purpose* of updating /etc/resolv.conf, is to uninstall the package. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/366967 Title: ifupdown-udev integration should be thought-out more thoroghly To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/resolvconf/+bug/366967/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs