[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] network-manager rant

[Michael Biebl]

[debian-devel is not the right list for this, so removing from CC]

On 12.01.2011 19:58, Anssi Kolehmainen wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just updated packages (which upgraded network-manager to 0.8.1-6) and then
> rebooted computer. I was greeted with a five minute wait while ntpd tried to
> query dns which was broken since network-manager decided to start, ignore
> bridge mappings, do dhcp on physical port of the bridge (which of course
> breaks the bridge) and clearing out /etc/resolv.conf. Again.

Please post your /etc/network/interfaces.

If I understand you correctly, you defined a bridge via /etc/network/interfaces
and you want to bring up the bridge ports via network-manager?
That doesn't sound like a good idea to me.
network-manager doesn't natively support bridge configurations (yet).
So if you define a bridge configuration in /etc/network/interfaces, you should
also configure the bridge_ports via /etc/network/interfaces (ifupdown).

Otherwise you will get unexpected results and indeed, if you read the changelog,
this was a change requested in #530335.

> There seems to be bugs filed for the relevant things so I won't bother
> creating new tickets. I just hope you would make network-manager not break
> things when system is in perfect working order :)

No, there is not such bug and imho network-manager is behaving the correct way here.

Michael


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