Verification-done for bionic: Changing the renderer to NetworkManager still leads to a working system with live connections, even with the NetworkManager files now having a .nmconnection extension:
ubuntu@just-boa:~$ dpkg -l netplan.io | grep ii ii netplan.io 0.96-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 amd64 YAML network configuration abstraction for various backends ubuntu@just-boa:~$ networkctl IDX LINK TYPE OPERATIONAL SETUP 1 lo loopback carrier unmanaged 2 enp2s1 ether routable unmanaged 3 enp2s2 ether degraded unmanaged 3 links listed. ubuntu@just-boa:~$ nmcli enp2s1: connected to netplan-enp2s1 "Realtek RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter (QEMU Virtual Machine)" ethernet (8139cp), 52:54:00:BC:B0:18, hw, mtu 1500 ip4 default, ip6 default inet4 10.3.21.29/20 route4 10.3.16.0/20 route4 0.0.0.0/0 inet6 2001:470:b171::5/48 inet6 fe80::5054:ff:febc:b018/64 route6 ff00::/8 route6 2001:470:b171::/48 route6 fe80::/64 route6 ::/0 enp2s2: connected to netplan-enp2s2 "Realtek RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter (QEMU Virtual Machine)" ethernet (8139cp), 52:54:00:59:A3:52, hw, mtu 1500 inet4 169.254.41.37/16 route4 224.0.0.0/4 route4 169.254.0.0/16 inet6 fe80::5054:ff:fe59:a352/64 route6 ff00::/8 route6 fe80::/64 lo: unmanaged "lo" loopback (unknown), 00:00:00:00:00:00, sw, mtu 65536 DNS configuration: servers: 10.3.21.25 149.56.20.136 interface: enp2s1 Use "nmcli device show" to get complete information about known devices and "nmcli connection show" to get an overview on active connection profiles. Consult nmcli(1) and nmcli-examples(5) manual pages for complete usage details. ubuntu@just-boa:~$ sudo ls -l /run/NetworkManager/system-connections/ total 8 -rw------- 1 root root 353 Apr 2 16:18 netplan-enp2s1.nmconnection -rw------- 1 root root 168 Apr 2 16:18 netplan-enp2s2.nmconnection ** Tags removed: verification-needed-bionic ** Tags added: verification-done-bionic -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1817655 Title: NetworkManager renderer broken on NM version 1.15.2 or later (Ubuntu 19.04 Disco) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/netplan/+bug/1817655/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs