[Bug 381586] Re: Add a warning to the interfaces file that interfaces present in this file won't be managed by network-manager

Stéphane Graber stgraber at stgraber.org
Thu Jun 28 20:39:33 UTC 2012


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 doing it now (4 years later).

** Changed in: ifupdown (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Won't Fix

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Title:
  Add a warning to the interfaces file that interfaces present in this
  file won't be managed by network-manager

Status in “ifupdown” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  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.

  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
  For example this how-to instruct them to add eth0 to the "interfaces" file and as a result it becomes unmanaged.

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